Re: Ideographic Description Characters

From: Mark Davis (mark.davis@jtcsv.com)
Date: Mon Dec 08 2003 - 20:20:44 EST

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    John, I don't see why you are saying that it is a 'no-no'. There is no reason
    that someone couldn't do something like that.

    Mark
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    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Christian Wittern" <wittern@kanji.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
    To: "John Jenkins" <jenkins@apple.com>
    Cc: "Unicode List" <unicode@unicode.org>
    Sent: Mon, 2003 Dec 08 16:55
    Subject: Re: Ideographic Description Characters

    > John Jenkins <jenkins@apple.com> writes:
    >
    > > On Dec 8, 2003, at 3:15 AM, Andrew C. West wrote:
    > >
    > >> On Sun, 7 Dec 2003 11:25:01 -0700, Tom Gewecke wrote:
    > >>>
    > >>> Can anyone tell me whether ideographic description characters are ever
    > >>> actually used?
    > >>
    > >
    > > The IRG is attempting to set up a database of existing ideographs using
    > > IDSs (strictly speaking, this is a no-no, but they understand that).
    > > This will help in the analysis of submitted ideographs and speed up the
    > > process of encoding.
    > >
    >
    > We are using them for this very "no-no" purpose, cf
    > http://www.kanji.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/projects/chise/
    >
    > All the best,
    >
    > Christian
    >
    > --
    >
    > Christian Wittern
    > Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University
    > 47 Higashiogura-cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8265, JAPAN
    >
    >



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