From: Mark Davis (mark.davis@jtcsv.com)
Date: Mon Dec 08 2003 - 20:20:44 EST
John, I don't see why you are saying that it is a 'no-no'. There is no reason
that someone couldn't do something like that.
Mark
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Christian Wittern" <wittern@kanji.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
To: "John Jenkins" <jenkins@apple.com>
Cc: "Unicode List" <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Mon, 2003 Dec 08 16:55
Subject: Re: Ideographic Description Characters
> 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
>
> --
>
> Christian Wittern
> Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University
> 47 Higashiogura-cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8265, JAPAN
>
>
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