On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, John H. Jenkins wrote:
> On Friday, March 15, 2002, at 11:38 AM, Dan Kogai wrote:
>
> > There are so many Watanabe-sans, Saito-san, and others whose name cannot
> > be spelled in Unicode.
>
> Can you document this? You know, there's a prize offered for the first
> person to document the existence of someone whose Japanese name cannot be
> represented by Unicode 3.2.
Is this open to names written with taboo-avoiding forms of characters
which omit strokes? e.g., U+7384 less the final stroke. Or are these
unified with the normal forms? (I'm aware that not all taboo-avoidance
works by stroke deletion.) The Kangxi emperor (r. 1662-1722) writes the
"xuan" of his personal name, Xuanye, with U+7384, but everyone else has to
use a similar form, but less the final stroke--see p. 725 of the edition
of the _Kangxi Zidian_ that the IRG uses. (This taboo-avoidance has
apparently extended to other characters that utilizied U+7384 as a
component.) Of course, my example here is not a Japanese one...
Thomas Chan
tc31@cornell.edu
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