From: Thomas Chan (tc31@cornell.edu)
Date: Sun Dec 14 2003 - 13:39:23 EST
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003, Michael Everson wrote:
> At 15:40 +0100 2003-12-14, Stefan Persson wrote:
> >Aren't the U+534D and U+5350 only defined for Asian usage, so that
> >different code points (which seem not to be defined in the current
> >version of the standard) have to be used for ancient European
> >purpose?
>
> All of the characters in the Unicode Standard are for anyone's use.
So would all swastikas be unifiable as U+534D and U+5350?
The entry for U+534D in the _Hanyu Da Zidian_, vol. 1, p. 51 (as indicated
in unihan.txt) includes a quote that it was originally not a Han
character, "wan ben fei zi ...", suggesting that it now is. There are
also serifs shown in that dictionary and the _Kangxi Zidian_ for both
characters.
Couldn't the above two characters be considerd a "CJK" or "IDEOGRAPHIC"
version (like the spaces, zero, punctuation, brackets, etc. in the "CJK
Symbols and Punctuation" block)?
Thomas Chan
tc31@cornell.edu
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