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

On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 9:31 PM, David J. Peterson <dedalvs@...> wrote:
> 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
Sounds like a plan.

FWIW, that's roughly the naming scheme uses for the KangXi radicals,
which have been encoded separately in Unicode for a couple of
versions; they have names such as KANGXI RADICAL TANNED LEATHER
(meaning-based; most of them) or KANGXI RADICAL DOWN BOX (shape-based;
some of the simplest ones).

Cheers,
--
Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>