Re: Synthetic scripts (was: Re: Private Use Agreements and Unappr oved Characters)

From: John H. Jenkins (jenkins@apple.com)
Date: Fri Mar 15 2002 - 14:17:29 EST

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On Friday, March 15, 2002, at 10:29 AM, David Starner wrote:

> In any case, we aren't talking live languages here. The set of
> Chinese and Japanese ideographs in modern use have been encoded. The
> characters left are obscure historical ones.
>
>

Would it were so. There are still characters missing for modern
non-Mandarin dialects of Chinese; some of the ones Unicode is proposing
for CJK Extension C are from Cantonese dictionaries.

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