Re: Conlang Unicode Font (was Re: Kamakawi Unicode Font Question)
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, March 9, 2008, 20:07 |
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On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 8:44 PM, David J. Peterson <dedalvs@...> wrote:
> in something like Unicode, when it's listing all the
> Chinese symbols, what does it *call* each symbol?
"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.
Cheers,
--
Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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