Re: Taboo Variants

From: David Starner (starner@okstate.edu)
Date: Fri Aug 09 2002 - 14:31:41 EDT


At 10:54 AM 8/9/02 -0700, Andrew C. West wrote:
>Actually, on second thoughts, why do we need a taboo variant selector when
>we already have generic
>variation selectors (U+FE00 through U+FE0F) ? The Standardized Variants
>document
><http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/StandardizedVariants.html> states :
>
><quote>
>Han Variants
>At this time no Han variants exist. When they do, a table will be inserted
>here.
></quote>
>
>Surely if there ever was a place to put taboo-form variants, this is it.

The difference being that the table matches a certain number of ideographs
with specific variants, where the taboo variant selector potentially matches
any ideograph with an (unspecified) taboo variant.



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