Re: Chinese FVS? (was: RE: Cuneiform Free Variation Selectors)

From: jameskass@att.net
Date: Tue Jan 20 2004 - 20:14:26 EST

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    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "John Jenkins" <jenkins@apple.com>
    To: "Unicode List" <unicode@unicode.org>
    Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 9:32 AM
    Subject: Re: Chinese FVS? (was: RE: Cuneiform Free Variation Selectors)

    .
    John Jenkins wrote,

    > 1) U+9CE6 is a traditional Chinese character (a kind of swallow)
    > without a SC counterpart encoded. However, applying the usual rules
    > for simplifications, it would be easy to derive a simplified form which
    > one could conceivably see in a book printed in the PRC. Rather than
    > encode the simplified form, the UTC would prefer to represent the SC
    > form using U+9CE6 + a variation selector.

    Except that this character is listed in CJK Extension C, on page 612.
    (File: IRGN9285.PDF 08/06/02)

    Best regards,

    James Kass
    .



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