The other thing I wanted to ask about has, sure enough,
disappeared. It's the only Han character I'm following. The
infamous Biang-Biang Noodle character, discussed at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biangbiang_noodles The WP page said it
was scheduled for Extension E (I know it says Extension F now: I
changed it), which has already been passed, so I looked through the
IRG web site and read up on a bunch of discussion tracing its fate.
It looks like it *was* in Extension E, but someone noticed that the
IDS and glyph were lacking one of the radicals ("heart")—see
http://appsrv.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~irg/irg/irg37/IRGN1779JapanResponse.pdf
—so it presumably got bumped off the Extension E list. Then the
US/UTC tried to propose it as an Urgently Needed Character, in
http://appsrv.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~irg/irg/irg40/IRGN1936A-R_UTC_UNC.pdf
I guess this made it get pulled out of Extension F, because I
couldn't find it any of the lists in IRGN1945, not in the proposed
list, nor the Withrawn/Unified lists. In
http://appsrv.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~irg/irg/irg41/IRGN1974.doc we find
responses to IRGN1936, saying things like "let's talk about it at
IRG meeting #41."
(
http://appsrv.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~irg/irg/irg41/IRGN1936_KR1_k2209_1.pdf)
Japan corrects the stroke count in
http://appsrv.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~irg/irg/irg41/IRGN1936_JPN_feedback.doc
but at IRG #41, according to
http://appsrv.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~irg/irg/irg41/IRGN1980Resolutions.doc
, the group "could not reach a consensus due to questions related to
urgency, stability, and technical issues", and it is nowhere in the
Resolutions from that meeting,
http://appsrv.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~irg/irg/irg42/IRGN2010Resolutions.pdf
. Meanwhile, it still isn't in the lists for Extension F, as far as
I can tell: not in F1 (IRGN2017) nor F2 (IRGN2018), if those are
different, nor in the Postponed or Withdrawn/Unified lists (at least
for F1; I didn't see those for F2). On the other hand, TR#45 still
shows it as part of Extension F
(
http://www.unicode.org/Public/UCD/latest/ucd/USourceData.txt , line
UTC-00791). So what's the deal?
(It isn't like I can read it or anything, I just find myself
interested for some reason. Meanwhile, tracking this down has
taught me a little bit of how to look things up in a Chinese
dictionary, which has always been a mystery to me. Cool.)
~mark
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