Re: Conlang Unicode Font (was Re: Kamakawi Unicode Font Question)

In a message dated 3/9/2008 14:50:29 PM Central Daylight Time,
dedalvs@GMAIL.COM writes:


> >  What does Chinese do, for example?
> >
>
> Usually by radical, then by number of strokes.
>
> By pronunciation is also used sometimes, though. (For example, the JIS
> standard sorts the kanji by reading IIRC.)
> >>
>
> Okay.  So, in something like Unicode, when it's listing all the
> Chinese symbols, what does it *call* each symbol?  If there are
> a dozen different /li/'s, certainly it doesn't say "MANDARIN
> IDEOGRAPH LI" a dozen times, does it?  Does it call it by
> name, as in what it's a word for, in English?  Does it assign it
> a number?  How do they do it?
>
> -David
>
David,
I've been working with Unicode CJK a lot lately, and I've never seen the
characters referred to by anything but their Unicode numbers.
I have a personal descriptive code for each character now (it took me a few
months) to help me find characters in Unicode.  My code can also describe
characters not in Unicode.

stevo   </HTML>