Re: Unihan is back, but...
On Aug 3, 2010, at 12:00 PM, Robert Abel wrote: > On 2010/08/03 18:17, John H. Jenkins wrote: >> >> Thanks for the report; it's been fixed. >> >> BTW, problems with the Unihan database should be reported via >> http://www.unicode.org/reporting.html. They're less likely to slip through >> the cracks that way. > Speaking of slipping through cracks. Are there any plans to update the > reference glyphs for all Han characters added after approximately Unicode > 3.1? I filed an error report on said page some time ago and got back that > Unicode just didn't get around to producing them. So is there an estimate on > when that will be the case? > Alas, no. We do still plan to do this, but we can't give any sense of when it will be done. = John H. Jenkins jenk...@apple.com
Re: Unihan is back, but...
On 2010/08/03 18:17, John H. Jenkins wrote: Thanks for the report; it's been fixed. BTW, problems with the Unihan database should be reported via http://www.unicode.org/reporting.html. They're less likely to slip through the cracks that way. Speaking of slipping through cracks. Are there any plans to update the reference glyphs for all Han characters added after approximately Unicode 3.1? I filed an error report on said page some time ago and got back that Unicode just didn't get around to producing them. So is there an estimate on when that will be the case? Robert Original reply to my report: Roger, Thank you for the error report. It appears that we have no reference glyphs for any characters added after (approximately) Unicode 3.1 because we haven't yet been able to produce them. Regards
Re: Unihan is back, but...
Thanks for the report; it's been fixed. BTW, problems with the Unihan database should be reported via http://www.unicode.org/reporting.html. They're less likely to slip through the cracks that way. On Aug 3, 2010, at 9:51 AM, Martin Heijdra wrote: > We were glad to find this week that Unihan is backup. > > However, there are some teething problems. If you look up by pronunciation, > say in Mandarin for jing3, you get as a result > > > > Without any actual characters, unlike previously. I am sure that’s not the > way it is supposed to work… > > Martin Heijdra > Martin J. Heijdra > Chinese Studies/East Asian Studies Bibliographer > East Asian Library and the Gest Collection > Frist Campus Center, Room 314 > Princeton University > Princeton, NJ 08544 > United States = Hoani H. Tinikini John H. Jenkins jenk...@apple.com
