Re: Hentaigana and the Kana Supplement block

On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 4:46 PM, Garth Wallace <gwalla_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> where
> does that leave the Kana Supplement block? That block contains only
> two encoded characters, but was allocated 256 code points, presumably
> for the future encoding of hentaigana. With hentaigana handled by
> SVSes, it seems unlikely that many of those points would ever get
> filled. I realize there's no shortage of code points in the UCS, but
> still.
>

I don't think the committee fills blocks with characters just because there
is space and some glyphs are related :-)

One thing I noticed: the hentaigana proposal contains a duplicate of
> an existing character. MJ090014 (え variant with mother ideograph 江)
> looks like it's already encoded in the Kana Supplement block as
> U+1B001 HIRAGANA LETTER ARCHAIC YE.
>

Please submit this via http://www.unicode.org/reporting.html

Best regards,
markus
Received on Mon Jul 27 2015 - 19:01:01 CDT