>
> Can anyone with a bit of Kanji knowledge check this page:
>
> http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/manyoshu/AnoMany.unavailable.html
>
> and tell whether all of the "missing" Kanji are in Unicode 3.2? A bunch
> of them are shown as not available in the Dai Kanwa, but I'm under the
> impression that the Dai Kanwa is covered by Unicode these days; so maybe
> someone would only have to check the items marked "nashi" for the Dai Kanwa
> column in that table.
Item A: U+2261F
Item D: U+218B3
...
and no, I don't have time to go down and check the others marked "nashi"
in the list.
> In any case, the Manyoushuu can certainly be expressed in Unicode 3.2 with
> ideographic description sequences -- and the above mentioned page does
> essentially that: it describes all of the Kanji that are "missing" from the
> encoding (listed as "x-euc-jp" in the web page; presumably being JIS X
> 0208 compatible). In my casual perusal I don't see anything that looks
> unexpressible with IDS.
Nor do I. In fact the AnoMany.unavailable.html page has its own
home-brewed IDS system to describe the missing "gaiji" for
Manyoushuu, so I see no particular barrier to simply converting
those to Unicode IDS for descriptions, in case the search for
characters in Extension A or Extension B turns up any missing.
--Ken
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