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

Since Philip answered, this is directed at him, but if anyone knows,
feel free to shout out.

Regarding:

Philip:
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On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 10:34 PM, David J. Peterson
<dedalvs@...> wrote:

>  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
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