From: William J Poser (wjposer@ldc.upenn.edu)
Date: Tue Apr 21 2009 - 17:47:21 CDT
I disagree with the claim that the character in question is not
in Unicode. The character in question is the character that Ms.
Ma's grandfather found in classical texts, which is traditional
horse writen three times in a row, encoded as U+299E2. This character
has no simplified version unless we count U+9A01. The obvious
simplification consisting of the simplified version of U+99AC,
namely, U+9A6C, written three times in a row, has not, hitherto,
existed. The version on Ms. Ma's temporary ID card is a nonce
character that she and some bureaucrat negotiated. (I wouldn't
be surprised if what she really would like is indeed but that
the bureaucrat wouldn't go that far.) Those claiming that the
character is not yet encoded are making the false assumption that
the character that she wants and/or the character that has a chance
of being accepted by the Chinese government, is a particular
simplfication of U+299E2.
Bill
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