On Friday, August 9, 2002, at 03:54 AM, Andrew C. West wrote:

> And in China, historically the personal names of emperors (for 
> emperors read dictators) have been
> tabooed

An Ideographic Taboo Variation Indicator has been approved by the UTC 
for addition to the standard to handle precisely this kind of situation 
(see <http://www.unicode.org/unicode/alloc/Pipeline.html>.  It works on 
the theory that you rarely need to know the precise *form* of the taboo 
variant, just that a taboo form is being used.  There was some 
disagreement in WG2 about its utility, however, and there is the 
problem that, as you note, some taboo variants have already been 
encoded.  It's currently scheduled to be reconsidered by the UTC.

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