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Re: Unicode Han Characters [was Re: Language tagging]

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From: John B. Melby
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 10:20
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>>Of course, there is one major flaw in the preliminary Unicode version:  the
>>Japanese simplified form of "sakura" (ying1hua1 de ying1) is not included.
>
>I'm not sure which "preliminary" Unicode version you are referring to;
>however, Unicode does have at U+6A31 the character ying1hua1 de ying1.
>Is the simplified Japanese form you refer to contained in JISX0208 or
>JISX0212?  If it is, then it is in Unicode 1.0.

This fallacy seems to have originated in an "official"(?) Unicode survey
posted to JUNET a while ago.  I have been corrected on this point - the
unsimplified character is 6AFB, the Chinese simplified character is 6A31,
and the Japanese simplified character is 685C.

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John B. Melby
Fujitsu Limited, Yokohama
melby@yk.fujitsu.co.jp
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