From: vunzndi@vfemail.net
Date: Mon Sep 24 2007 - 19:42:56 CDT
Quoting Gerrit Sangel <z0idberg@gmx.de>:
> Hello,
>
> I have a question concerning Han characters:
>
> I want to write Biáng biáng (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biang) in an
> ordinary text. As far as I know, the character is not included in Unicode, so
> it seems that there is no possibility to just write it.
>
> I read about the Ideographic Description Characters, but as far as I?ve
> understood it, they are only for graphically description of a character, so
> the reader has to compose it for himself in his mind or rather on a sheet of
> paper.
>
Yes and no. This is what people do, it would be acceptable for an
application to display an IDS as a single glyph, though I do not know
of any applications that do such at present.
> But I?d like to write these characters in a usual text so that the user can
> read it normally. Would this be possible or is there a plan to offer this
> feature (maybe something like Cangjie)?
>
As mentiontioned above displaying as a single character is allowed.
> I think, something like latin ligatures with Opentype features would be a way
> to do this, so that the font displays different composed characters depending
> on what single characters are written. But this could be a mess because there
> are already so much encoded characters which would then offer several ways to
> write a character.
>
> Thanks
> Gerrit
>
>
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