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- From: melby@dove.yk.fujitsu.co.jp (John B. Melby)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
- Subject: Re: Unicode Han Characters [was Re: Language tagging]
- Message-ID: <MELBY.93Jan8102034@dove.yk.fujitsu.co.jp>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 10:20:34 GMT
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- In-reply-to: glenn@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu's message of 6 Jan 93 17:59:12 GMT
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- >>Of course, there is one major flaw in the preliminary Unicode version: the
- >>Japanese simplified form of "sakura" (ying1hua1 de ying1) is not included.
- >
- >I'm not sure which "preliminary" Unicode version you are referring to;
- >however, Unicode does have at U+6A31 the character ying1hua1 de ying1.
- >Is the simplified Japanese form you refer to contained in JISX0208 or
- >JISX0212? If it is, then it is in Unicode 1.0.
-
- This fallacy seems to have originated in an "official"(?) Unicode survey
- posted to JUNET a while ago. I have been corrected on this point - the
- unsimplified character is 6AFB, the Chinese simplified character is 6A31,
- and the Japanese simplified character is 685C.
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- John B. Melby
- Fujitsu Limited, Yokohama
- melby@yk.fujitsu.co.jp
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