["Unicode"] tablature characters for the Chinese guqin

[suzuki toshiya]

It seems that my first response to this discussion was not
delivered because my attachment image was too big. I'm sorry,
please let me post revised version...

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China National Body had ever reported that they had a plan to
encode the character for the tablature, in IRG:
http://appsrv.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~irg/irg/irg32/IRGN1574_ChinaActivityReportIRG32.doc

When I asked the progress of the plan in later IRG meeting,
they commented "nothing to report in the project". I wish if
there is something ongoing in Chinese Character Repertoire
project (oh, it was announced to be finished in 2015!).

BTW, a character for the latter style was sampled in a normal
Chinese dictionary "CiYuan", and China NB submission to CJK
Unified Ideograph Extension F includes it (G_CY2255). However,
there was a comment that the evidence image was not clearly
scanned, so G_CY2255 is being queued in the postponed list
(see PDF in
http://appsrv.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~irg/irg/irg41/IRGN1979Appendix1_PostponedIRG40And41.zip
)

Regards,
mpsuzuki

Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>> China National Body had ever reported that they had a plan to
>> encode the character for the tablature, in IRG: [...]
> 
> Thanks.
> 
>> BTW, a few (only one?) characters for the latter style are sampled
>> in a normal dictionary "CiYuan", and will be included in CJK Unified
>> Ideograph Extension F. However, I don't think encoding only one
>> glyph for the tablature is so useful - there is any avantgarde
>> number using only one note?
> 
> Well, the very structure of the guqin tablature characters is this:
> 
>                mod1   mod2
> 
>                 base char
> 
>                mod3   mod4
> 
> The number of `modifiers' varies, but according to the literature it
> can go up to six and more.  Given that a modifier is usually a digit,
> and that we have a bunch of base characters, we easily reach 100000
> and more characters if all possible permutations are encoded, and this
> is certainly not what Unicode wants :-)
> 
> 
>     Werner