Re: Ideographic description characters?

From: Kenneth Whistler (kenw@sybase.com)
Date: Wed Mar 27 2002 - 20:00:26 EST

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Stefan,

> Can someone please tell me what the characters in the Ideographic
> description characters block are used for?

RTM: http://www.unicode.org/unicode/uni2book/ch10.pdf

> Is U+2FF0 U+5973 (女) U+5B50 (子)
> identical to U+597D (好),

No. It constitutes a *description* of U+597D.

> or do these character serve for a completely
> different purpose? Does any font support the characters in this block?

Yes. But I will leave it to others to point explicitly to fonts
that do.

--Ken

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