RE: metalanguage (was RE: Why is Unicode inconsistant?)

From: John Jenkins (jenkins@apple.com)
Date: Mon Oct 04 1999 - 15:19:10 EDT


On Monday, October 4, 1999 7:24:02 AM, Marco.Cimarosti@icl.com wrote:

> 4: (This will bring flashes of lightnings on my head :-)
> CJK Ideographs currently have uninformative names like "CJK IDEOGRAPH 4E00".
> They could be more validly named using IDS's (Ideographic Description
> Sequences) with only Kangxi and Supplement radicals as DC's. E.g.:
> 4E00 = CJK IDEOGRAPH ONE
> 4E01 = CJK IDEOGRAPH ATB ONE HOOK
> 4E0A = CJK IDEOGRAPH ATB DIVINATION ONE
> 4E0B = CJK IDEOGRAPH ATB ONE DIVINATION
> 4E62 = CJK IDEOGRAPH LTR MOUNTAIN SECOND-TWO
> 4EC0 = CJK IDEOGRAPH LTR STANDING-PERSON TEN
> and these could then be somehow shortened for your proposed short notation:
> 4E00 = [one]
> 4E01 = [Z one hook]
> 4E0A = [Z divinat one]
> 4E0B = [Z one divinat]
> 4E62 = [N mount two2]
> 4EC0 = [N standp ten]
>

Consider the lightning descended. The IDSs are too ambiguous to use for
this sort of thing. Among other things.

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John H. Jenkins
jenkins@apple.com
tseng@blueneptune.com
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