Kenneth Whistler wrote:
> Ben Monroe wrote:
>
> > As it is a personal spelling, I never expected
> > Unicode to map a code point to this character to me.
>
> For those not following the Japanese in the UTF-8, Ben's name
> is Monryuu Ben in kanji. This is a sound-based name coinage
> for an English name. Mon 'gate' ryuu ~ ryoo 'dragon'. (Sorry,
> but I can't tell just from the kanji just exactly what
> pronunciation you would use.)
I apoligize if UTF-8 caused any confusion. This one will be in iso-2022-jp.
In my case, 龍 is to be read /ro:/ (which is one of the rarer 漢音, the
other being /ryo:, bo:/ ; the more common /ryu:/ listed as a 慣用音
according to to my 漢和��㌧機∥荼淅� published by 王髟阡司研踉子 for those who are
interested; /bo:/ is left out of my pocket electronic dictionary). 門龍 is
to be read モンロ・踉� or /monro:/ (for my surname, Monroe).
> > Should I really have any reason to expect Unicode to deal with this?
>
> Nope. Any more than it should deal with the fanciful but
> ubiquitous good luck coinages like the shuang1xi3 'double happiness'
> "character".
Just as I thought. I admit it is a personal "spelling" so I had little hope.
But worth a try.
> > Is there a method to synthesize this without resorting to a picture?
>
> Not to synthesize it per se, but certainly to describe it:
>
> U+2FF5 U+9580 U+9F8D
Thank you.
I didn't know U+2FF5 off the top of my head and found it at
http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2FF0.pdf
It descripes it as:
IDEOGRAPHIC DESCRIPTION
CHARACTER SURROUND FROM
ABOVE
Sounds nice as the 門 is certainly above the 龍 .
I tried it out at http://www.macchiato.com/unicode/show.html (or course
changing into the /uxxxx form) but the result was still two split characters
preceeded by so-called U+2FF5. A quick Java program produced the same
results. Perhaps I was doing something wrong. I'll have to look up more
information about how to apply/implement this.
Thanks for your useful replies.
And thanks to Rick McGowan as well.
Ben Monroe
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