Re: Whistler's Conjecture (was: Re: Emoji: emoticons vs. literacy)

From: John H. Jenkins (jenkins@apple.com)
Date: Fri Jan 09 2009 - 16:31:49 CST

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    On Jan 9, 2009, at 1:51 PM, Kenneth Whistler wrote:

    >
    > This because the IRG and other Han enthusiasts have determined
    > that Oracle Bone script (Jaiguwen), Bronze script (Jinwen),
    > and Small Seal script (Xiao Zhuan) need to be disjointly
    > encoded and have prevailed upon WG2 to approve the Tertiary
    > Ideographic Plane to roadmap their allocations. (OT comments
    > about Han fossils discovered on the Tertiary planes
    > of China are invited.)
    >
    > I'm not expecting even initial proposals for the Tertiary
    > Ideographic Plane to show up for some time yet, however.
    >

    Pace Dr. Whistler, I think there's a very real possibility that future
    CJK Extensions will fill up and overflow the SIP. But at the rate
    things are proceeding, it's not going to happen in my lifetime.

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    John H. Jenkins
    jenkins@apple.com



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