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

From:David J. Peterson <dedalvs@...>
Date:Sunday, March 9, 2008, 20:31
Philip:
<<
"CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5678". (That one happens to be a character
sometimes used to represent the loan-word "ton", as in the unit of
weight.)

That is, it's an algorithmically-generated name that basically only
identified its Unicode code point.
 >>

Huh.  Well, I suppose you could call it anything.  I'm going to
stick with calling them what they were originally created for,
e.g.:

KAMAKAWI IDEOGRAPH SAND CRAB

Stevo:
<<
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.
 >>

How does it work?

-David
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