[OT] ASCII-art Kang Xi radicals!

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I discovered today about a curious encoding practice, and I wished to share
this info with the Unicode List.

Cantonese uses many ideographs containing a "mouth" radical which are not
available in some legacy encodings. Some users invented a creative way to
encode these characters: they use a lowercase "o" to represent the mouth
radical.

E.g., "o左" (U+006F U+5DE6) stands for "咗" (U+5497). See an example of this
on <http://www.geocities.com/WongTzeWah/interview11.htm>.

Of course, that page is in Big-5: in Unicode, such a trick is not needed.

_ Marco

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