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. ========== John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jhjenkins/