John Cowan wrote:
>
> Scott Horne wrote:
>
> > Are you referring to the _Selected Works of Chairman Mao_
> > (_Mao2 Ze2dong1 xuan3 ji2_)? It requires two characters that
> > are not in Unicode: _gong1_ with a jog in its vertical stroke,
> > and _ren2_ with three _pier3_ crossing the _na4_. (See Volume III.)
>
> Are these to be found in Vertical Extension A?
No, but I found myself scratching my head over Scott's comment.
By _gong1_, I presume he is referring to U+5DE5, as in gong1zuo4.
That character written "with a jog in its vertical stroke" is
simply a stylistic variant on the same character. That glyph would
be unified with U+5DE5 as a character. Or if not, why not?
By _ren2_, I presume he is referring to U+58EC. For those unfamiliar
with Chinese calligraphy, a _pier3_ (U+6487 U+513F) [or by its name
as a radical, U+4E3F] is a downstroke descending from upper right to
lower left. U+5F61 shows three pier3. A _na4_ (U+637A) is a downstroke
descending from upper left to lower right (i.e. U+4E40). U+4E42
is a na4 crossing a pier3. As for a _ren2_ consisting of "three
_pier3_ crossing the _na4_", none of the Chinese here can make any
sense of that -- a picture would help! But in any case, the way
Scott is describing this sounds like another glyph variant -- and
not a separate character to be encoded.
--Ken
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