From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Mon Jan 12 2009 - 02:53:08 CST
On 12 Jan 2009, at 05:34, Leo Broukhis wrote:
> As a unified CJK glyph - no, because it is also present in another
> independent writing system. If you had chosen a kanji specific to
> Japanese, then - in absence of homonyms - it can be argued that a
> kanji character is the precomposed glyph for a word spelled out in
> kana that uniquely identifies that character.
No. That would not be about "character identity". It would be about
"spelling" a "word".
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com
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