From: Raymond Mercier (RaymondM@compuserve.com)
Date: Wed May 07 2003 - 16:18:15 EDT
Thanks for your comments
At 11:17 07/05/2003 -0700, Kenneth Whistler wrote:
>When the decisions were made to release Unicode 4.0, the numerous
>updates for Unihan.txt were not yet completed and fully checked, so
>the release of the update of that file has been delayed until they
>can be completed and checked.
As I imagined your stages, I just hoped that there might be time to finish
it before the volumes are assembled.
>Instead it shows an erratic and
> whimsical character that frustrates all the good uses to which it might be
> put.
There have been contributions by Andrew West, and to a much lesser extent
by myself, about the strange collection of mandarin readings. Further, I
note that of the 214 Kang Xi radicals only about half are noted as such.
That shows an absence of consistent strategy.
>>
but your inquiry presupposes that
the editors are sitting on their duffs waiting for some indication
that the file should be updated.
<<
No, I didn't suppose that, I am just impatient for a really good version.
>>
Nothing could be further from
the truth. Massive lists of additions and corrections have already been
made to Unihan.txt. Those *would* have been released with Unicode 4.0,
had they been ready in time. They *will* be released, when they are
ready.
<<
Splendid.
Raymond
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