From: Philippe Verdy (verdy_p@wanadoo.fr)
Date: Mon Dec 08 2003 - 12:25:27 EST
John Jenkins
> The IRG is attempting to set up a database of existing ideographs using
> IDSs (strictly speaking, this is a no-no, but they understand that).
> This will help in the analysis of submitted ideographs and speed up the
> process of encoding.
At least, IDC would really speed up the work of unification of various
repertoire sources and help avoid duplicates. It seems that, even if IDC
allows several compositions, a sort of canonical ideographic decomposition
(not a NFD or NFKD decomposition!) could be created to match these
characters with a precise 2D composition model based on IDC's.
Such database would also help the creation of ideographic fonts, by allowing
to compose rapidly a first version of a complete Han font with very few
glyphs for radicals or strokes (after this automatic step, it could be
compared to carefully designed glyphs, to author the font with careful
adjustments such as kerning, partial overlays, or small variations of stroke
widths/length/angle.
This would mean lower costs to develop a functional Han font.
In fact the same system could be used as well for Hangul syllables, so that
fonts will be able to render more syllables than just the precomposed ones
present in the Johab set.
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