["Unicode"] tablature characters for the Chinese guqin

[suzuki toshiya]

> 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 :-)

Indeed.

Some people may want to encode the tablature characters as precomposed
glyphs in square metric, and unify with Hanzi. The separated encoding
as combining character would be better to process as a musical content,
in my personal opinion.

There is a joke saying Unicode is a Hanzi collection because the biggest
part is CJK Unified Ideograph, but the precomposed encoding of guqin
characters would modify it as "Unicode is now a musical note collection".

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
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