RE: Plane-2-only string

Dear Peter,

since the Chinese characters below are meaningless in Chinese using
them should not be a first choice, as they are meaningless, so
gibberish, just not complete gibberish.

Plane 2 has a fair number of older Chinese characters, so someone with
a knowledge of ancient Chinese might well be able make something
meaningful. Run a competition in China would be one way to get
suggestions, spotting a good suggestion is easier than making one.

Plane 2 has Cantonese, Vietnamese and Zhuang characters. The number of
Cantonese characters is small, so making phrases using only them would
be difficult. Both Vietnamese and Zhuang have a much larger number of
characters so much easier to make something meaningful.

The following Zhuang proverb, or saying

𮤯𫭴𭣀𭒹𣐡𮤯󶒘𩜋𭸘𭡘

"Plant sweet potatoes in the field, and raise pigs in the sty."[lit:
house, as the bottom floor of tradional house used for livestock and
people live in floor above.]

However third and eighth characters are not the most common used.

Regards
John

On 14.11.2017 06:38, Peter Constable via Unicode wrote:
> I discussed this with one of my Chinese co-workers, and we came up
> with the following:
>
> “𠀀𠀁𠀂𠀃𠀄
> 𦬣𦬤𦬥𦬦𦬧
> 𦩒𦩓𦩔𦩕𦩖
> 𨣫𨣬𨣭𨣮𨣯”
>
> Factors in the choice of characters were:
> - different radicals
> - for a given radical, have a sequence of consecutive characters so
> people get the idea it's not a sentence but just a sequence of
> characters with related meanings
> - radical groups increase in complexity
>
>
> It's not a sentence that can be read, but there's an obvious pattern,
> so it's also not completely gibberish.
>
>
> Peter
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Kass [mailto:jameskasskrv_at_gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 13, 2017 2:29 PM
> To: Peter Constable <petercon_at_microsoft.com>
> Cc: Unicode list <unicode_at_unicode.org>
> Subject: Re: Plane-2-only string
>
> Peter Constable wrote,
>
>> We don't want to add BMP characters to the ExtB fonts.
>
> So the sample text would lack punctuation. Given that the
> Supplementary Ideographic Plane is composed of rare and historical
> characters from multiple sources, I suspect that the short answer to
> Peter's original question is: "No".
Received on Mon Nov 13 2017 - 23:45:31 CST