Re: Implementation of ideographic description characters

From: Charlie Ruland <ruland_at_luckymail.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 14:54:54 +0200

This Mediawiki extension reminds me of svghanzi.appspot.com/
<http://svghanzi.appspot.com/>. If you don't understand the Russian
instructions, read Creating Characters by SVG
<http://www.sinosplice.com/life/archives/2013/02/26/creating-characters-by-svg>
by John Pasden.

gfb hjjhjh wrote:
> After some researches, there is already a Mediawiki extension named as
> ids that do exactly what I asked about.
> (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Ids) With the only problem
> is that ⿻is still not yet supported by the system. Now the question is
> can this extension become something integrated into a font.
>
> 2016-08-05 3:26 GMT+08:00 Thomas H Gewecke <thgewecke_at_mac.com
> <mailto:thgewecke_at_mac.com>>:
>
>
>> On Aug 4, 2016, at 2:45 PM, gfb hjjhjh <c933103_at_gmail.com
>> <mailto:c933103_at_gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> That Wikipedia page also have a section named as "Ideographic
>> Description Sequences" which is exactly forming sequences base on
>> those ideographic description characters
>>
>>
>
> As I understand it, such sequences may provide a “description” of
> kanji useful for some purposes, but are not sufficient to
> properly “render” them.
>
>
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