Re: 31 Angry Watanabes (or the Itaiji problem)

From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Tue Mar 19 2002 - 23:30:04 EST


Dan the Man wrote:

>> Right except for one thing. Han Unification. Itaiji should have
been
>> COLLATED, not UNIFIED. Well, that maybe overruled in time (at least
we
>> have enough code points for that now)....

and John Jenkins replied:

> No, it won't be overruled.
> ...
> Unicode will probably handle itaiji via variation marks. The only
other
> plausible way to handle it would be to have a block of ideographs
whose
> sole purpose in life is to be used for the personal names of people in
> Japan and race horses in Hong Kong.

If there does turn out to be a new (or extended) block to cover the
itaiji, then of course Dan can collate them with the other kanji to his
heart's content. Dan, you do understand that, right? Code point order
has *nothing* to do with collation.

-Doug Ewell
 Fullerton, California



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