USAT value in the kIRG_USource property

[drmccreedy .]

Thank you both for the background.

David McCreedy

On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 5:26 AM, Andrew West <andrewcwest at gmail.com> wrote:

> David,
>
> As Mr Suzuki says, despite the U prefix, USAT is not a Unicode source
> character.  The reason why a solitary USAT source reference has
> suddenly popped up in Ext. B is that several thousand ideographs were
> proposed for encoding by SAT in what will be CJK Ext. F in Unicode
> 10.0 next year (there are currently 2,884 USAT characters in Ext. F).
> At the WG2 meeting in Matsue Japan last year, in response to UK ballot
> comments, USAT-00061 was unified with U+20991 in Ext. B (see
> http://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4701-M64-Recommendations.pdf
> Recommendation M64.05c).  I suppose that the Unicode Standard will be
> updated with a description of SAT when Ext. F is included in v. 10
> next year.
>
> Andrew
>
>
>
> On 28 June 2016 at 06:09, drmccreedy . <drmccreedy at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I see one codepoint now has the kIRG_USource property value of "USAT" in
> the
> > Unihan_IRGSources.txt file from Unihan.zip:
> >    U+20991 kIRG_USource USAT-00061
> >
> > UAX #45 (U-source Ideographs,
> > http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr45/index.html) mentions UTC and UCI
> but not
> > USAT.
> >
> > UAX #38 (Unicode Han Database, http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr38/)
> updated
> > the syntax for the kIRG_USource property (but not the description) to
> > U(TC|CI|SAT)-[0-9]{5} so I'm pretty sure it's not a typo.
> >
> > Where can I find a description of the USAT value?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > David McCreedy
>
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