What i meant was: (sorry i can't do ascii art)
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A B C
Put parts A and B together for a five.
Put parts A and C together for a ra.
That kind of thing.
And look me in the eye and tell me it is not a great trick for Kanji. I mean, how many times are you going to keep making that water radical?
$B!z$8$e$&$$$C$A$c$s!z(B
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$B7oL>(B: Re: Latin w/ diacritics (was Re: benefits of unicode)
>From: "11 digit boy" <11@onna.com>
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>> Why does Unicode only have space for 1114112 glyphs?
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>Unicode only defines characters, not glyphs.
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>> That is 1114112, I think.
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>Something like that. It looks nicer in hex.
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>> You ever notice how characters in different writing systems seem to be
>made out of only a small number of parts? Like if you write an N backwards,
>you get a Russian vowel, or if you write a five with the top stroke shorter
>and tilted a little bit, with the tilt just right, you get a hiragana ra?
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>I suppose. Generally speaking, people do not think of it that way. This is a
>(IMHO) dangerous practice of trying to explain one language/script in terms
>of another.
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>> Do font makers ever use this? Like with the five and the ra?
>
>Perhaps they do, but generally speaking they would be doing a huge
>disservice to a script to take this route, and add a layer of complexity in
>terms of new operations like rotation, flipping, etc. I am inclined
>tobelieve that they do not.
>
>MichKa
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>Michael Kaplan
>Trigeminal Software, Inc.
>http://www.trigeminal.com/
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