On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Alain LaBont/e'/ wrote:
> At 15:35 97-01-09 -0800, Kenneth Whistler wrote:
> >If ISO/IEC 14651 is set up in such a way that establishment of a standard
> >default order for Han characters can be so disrupted by the encoding of
> >an additional Han character somewhere else "out of order" that Alain
> >speaks of "future nightmares" for that standard, would it not make more
> >sense to simply insist on publication of a defined radical/strokecount
> >for each Han character in 10646 (as an annex to 10646?) and then have
> >14651 simply designate the default sort order for Han to be by the
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Just to play the devil's advocate here. This could be a problem if we
still remember the story of bones ...
For one thing, we cannot assume that C, J, K agree with a single set of
radicals, let alone their ordering: sorting is a very cultural thing
and an agreement is harder to get than assigning a character to a code
point in 10646. This leads me to my next point: it might be useful to
allow multiple-level of defaults (or graduated tailoring, depending on
how you look at it). 14651's default is the first level, where CJK
characters could be simply sorted by thier order in 10646 (or some
compromise if someone's willing to try); the second level could be tied
with a National Profile. If it happens to agree with 14651's first level
default, great; if not, that's usu a problem within a single culture
which would be easier to deal with. User-level tailoring would happen
below the National Profile level.
In the spirit of co-operation, maybe IRG could identify differences in
radical/count sorting within cultures using CJK characaters and try to
resolve "minor" differences (agreeing with an order).
Xiao-he Zhang
> >radical/strokecount as defined in 10646? That information, if published
> >in machine-readable form, would enable any implementer to adjust a
> >radical/strokecount collation table fairly automatically as new Han
> >character sets are added to 10646.
>
> What an excellent idea! I applaude to it and am ready to support it...
> however doing this is as much of a monk's task than the nightmare I was
> talking about, with the burden of making it *in addition* for current
> characters, but if the IRG does the task, I am ready to gladly accept it
> immediately.
>
> Alain LaBonté
> Québec
>
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