Re: Ideographic Description Characters

From: Christian Wittern (wittern@kanji.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp)
Date: Mon Dec 08 2003 - 19:55:52 EST

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    John Jenkins <jenkins@apple.com> writes:

    > On Dec 8, 2003, at 3:15 AM, Andrew C. West wrote:
    >
    >> On Sun, 7 Dec 2003 11:25:01 -0700, Tom Gewecke wrote:
    >>>
    >>> Can anyone tell me whether ideographic description characters are ever
    >>> actually used?
    >>
    >
    > 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.
    >

    We are using them for this very "no-no" purpose, cf
    http://www.kanji.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/projects/chise/

    All the best,

    Christian 

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 Christian Wittern 
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