From: Ernest Cline (ernestcline@mindspring.com)
Date: Wed May 12 2004 - 08:12:06 CDT
"Benjamin Peterson" <ben@jbrowse.com> wrote:
>
> "Doug Ewell" <dewell@adelphia.net> wrote:
> >
> > Those who wish to disunify Japanese characters from Chinese are basing
> > their judgments on glyph differences which are WAY, WAY smaller than the
> > differences between Coptic and Greek, or between Phoenician and Hebrew.
> > In many cases the difference is no more than a preference for constant
> > stroke-width over variable stroke-width.
> >
>
> Sheer pedantry makes me say that while in many cases the difference is
> small, in many cases it is very large, so large that many users do not
> see the regional variants as the same character.
>
> > As an added bonus, disunifying Japanese from Chinese would cause
> > incredible problems with mapping legacy character sets to and from
> > Unicode.
>
> I agree. It would also cause many other problems -- lucky, then, that it
> would be well-nigh impossible anyway.
If disunification were ever to be considered, then variation selectors
would probably be the best way to disunify the CJKV ideographs
at this point. (Not that I am advocating disunification, I don't use the
characters myself, so I couldn't care less whether they are unified or
not.)
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