Re: character names (questions)

From: John Jenkins (jenkins@apple.com)
Date: Thu Apr 06 2000 - 11:36:23 EDT


on 4/6/00 1:10 AM, Viranga Ratnaike at viranga@mds.rmit.edu.au wrote:

> 3400;<CJK Ideograph Extension A, First>;Lo;0;L;;;;;N;;;;;
> 4DB5;<CJK Ideograph Extension A, Last>;Lo;0;L;;;;;N;;;;;
> 4E00;<CJK Ideograph, First>;Lo;0;L;;;;;N;;;;;
> 9FA5;<CJK Ideograph, Last>;Lo;0;L;;;;;N;;;;;

The name is CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-XXXX, where XXXX is its code point
(Unicode 3.0, p. 335).

> AC00;<Hangul Syllable, First>;Lo;0;L;;;;;N;;;;;
> D7A3;<Hangul Syllable, Last>;Lo;0;L;;;;;N;;;;;

The name is generated algorithmically (Unicode 3.0, ad loc.)

> D800;<Non Private Use High Surrogate, First>;Cs;0;L;;;;;N;;;;;
> DB7F;<Non Private Use High Surrogate, Last>;Cs;0;L;;;;;N;;;;;
> DC00;<Low Surrogate, First>;Cs;0;L;;;;;N;;;;;
> DFFF;<Low Surrogate, Last>;Cs;0;L;;;;;N;;;;;

These characters don't have names.

>
> ...and also for the private use ranges
> (which we'll probably be needing).
>

These characters don't have names, either.

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