Re: CJK glyph generation

2000-11-25 Thread Edward Cherlin
At 06:37 -0800 2000/11/7, Jon Babcock wrote: > > Edward Cherlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Chinese scholar-officials in training used to practice writing the > > 3000 Character Classic over and over and over...and yes, it contained > > 3000 distinct characters once each. >

Xi Xia (Tangut) Script

2000-11-25 Thread Richard Cook
List members might find information on work being done on Xi Xia (Tangut) Script to be of interest. Prof. GONG Hwang-cherng and his colleagues in the Institute of Linguistics at Academia Sinica in Taiwan have been working for the past several years to creat

Re: Information about curly-tailed phonetic letters

2000-11-25 Thread Richard Cook
Michael Everson wrote: > > Ar 13:10 -0800 2000-11-23, scríobh Richard Cook: > >Hi everyone, > >This paper, brought to your attention last June > > > >http://stedt.berkeley.edu/pdf/curly-tailed-tdnlcz.pdf > >http://stedt.berkeley.edu/pdf/TranscriptionTable-WUZongji.jpg > > > >has been updated rece

Re: Kana and Case (was [totally OT] Unicode terminology)

2000-11-25 Thread James Kass
Christopher John Fynn wrote > Meanwhile there is the PUA and conventions > for it's use such as ConScript. > > Once ISO 10646 is the universally adopted > character set there would be no harm > in officially encoding these scripts. > > Meanwhile, have there been any actual > implementations o

Re: Information about curly-tailed phonetic letters

2000-11-25 Thread Michael Everson
Ar 13:10 -0800 2000-11-23, scríobh Richard Cook: >Hi everyone, >This paper, brought to your attention last June > >http://stedt.berkeley.edu/pdf/curly-tailed-tdnlcz.pdf >http://stedt.berkeley.edu/pdf/TranscriptionTable-WUZongji.jpg > >has been updated recently. Still working on getting the formal