Re: Comments on Part 1: Asian characters

>1. Are characters [#x3021-#x3029] ideographic characters?
>
>These characters are listed in the definition of Ideographic
>[75].  However, in the Unicode standard (Version 2.0), these
>characters are Hangzhyou-style numerals.  Are these
>characters digits or ideographic characters?

Both, I think.

>2. Hankaku katakana extenders should be removed.
>
>From the definition of Extender [80], remove three
>characters as below:
>
>0xFF70	# HALFWIDTH KATAKANA-HIRAGANA PROLONGED SOUND MARK
>0xFF9E	# HALFWIDTH KATAKANA VOICED SOUND MARK
>0xFF9F	# HALFWIDTH KATAKANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK
>
>Also remove 65392, 65438, and 65439 from the list of NAMECHAR.
>
>These characters are hankaku katakana characters, which
>should be allowed for backward compatibility only.

I disagree.

Received on Wednesday, 28 May 1997 09:57:29 UTC