RE: Sorting on number of strokes for Traditional Chinese

From: Marco Cimarosti (marco.cimarosti@essetre.it)
Date: Wed Oct 16 2002 - 06:14:20 EDT

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    John H. Jenkins wrote:
    > >> I wonder Unicode provide us a way to do sorting on number of
    > >> strokes for Traditional Chinese characters.
    >
    > The Unihan database has total stroke count for many (but not all)
    > characters. It may provide an adequate first-order set of data for a
    > pure stroke-based ordering in TC.

    The next step is knowing *which* strokes make up each characters, in order
    to properly sort characters having the same stroke number.

    Is there any online source for such data? Even for smaller sets than Unicode
    CJK.

    _ Marco

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