From: vunzndi@vfemail.net
Date: Tue Jan 23 2007 - 00:16:17 CST
Unicode has consistently rejected using this approach of putting two
Chinese characters together to make a new one, and insists each new
CJKV character must be encoded, even though this would cut down the
number of codepionts required dramatically. Most Chinese characters
are in fact made in this way (over 80% if the one allows combinations
of combinations).
Quoting Adam Twardoch <list.adam@twardoch.com>:
> vunzndi@vfemail.net wrote:
>> The average writer of Chinese knows about 5000 characters -- if
>> that person makes new characters by combining just two together
>> 5000 x 5000 = 25 000 000 (25 million)
> You can always take two codes of the existing characters and stick a
> ZWJ between them (or something like that). You don't *have to* add
> codepoints all the time.
>
> The question of glyphs, fonts and rendering, is one that is related to
> text encoding, but there does not have to be a 1:1 codepoint-to-glyph
> correspondence (and very often, there is not for other writing systems).
>
> A.
>
> --
>
> Adam Twardoch
> | Language Typography Unicode Fonts OpenType
> | twardoch.com | silesian.com | fontlab.net
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