Thanks for the suggestion. Alas, the fonts don't support that block.
Peter -----Original Message----- From: Unicode [mailto:unicode-boun...@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Charlie Ruland via Unicode Sent: Monday, November 13, 2017 12:05 PM To: unicode@unicode.org Subject: Re: Plane-2-only string Many of characters in the CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement block are quite common Chinese characters, or variants thereof. You could try and build Chinese sentences with these characters. On Mon, 13 Nov 2017 at 20:20 GMT+01:00 Peter Constable via Unicode wrote: > I’m wondering if anyone could come up with a string of 15 to 40 characters > _using only plane 2 characters_ that wouldn’t be gibberish? > > We are considering adding sample-text strings in some of our fonts. (In > OpenType, the ‘name’ table can take sample-text strings using name ID 19.) > One particular issue we have is the Simsun-ExtB and MingLiU-ExtB fonts, which > have CJK characters from plane 2 only. > > Background: > The Simsun-ExtB and MingLiU-ExtB fonts are meant to complement the Simsun and > MingLiU fonts: the combined glyph count exceeds the number of glyphs that can > be added in a single OpenType font, and so the “ExtB” fonts are used to > contain all of the Plane 2 characters that are supported. For example, the > Simsun font supports 28738 BMP characters, and no plane 2 characters, while > Simsun-ExtB supports the Basic Latin block from the BMP plus 47,293 plane 2 > characters. The combined glyph count exceeds 64K, so can’t go into a single > font. > > > > Peter
