Egyptian Hieroglyph Man with a Laptop
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Thu Feb 13 17:47:12 CST 2020
Dear Ken
An interesting comparison, if strange means dubious, then the name
kstrange should be changed or some of the content removed because many
of the characters in the set are not dubious in the least.
Regards
John
On 2020-02-14 04:08, Ken Whistler via Unicode wrote:
> You want "dubious"?!
>
> You should see the hundreds of strange characters already encoded in
> the CJK *Unified* Ideographs blocks, as recently documented in great
> detail by Ken Lunde:
>
> https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2020/20059-unihan-kstrange-update.pdf
>
> Compared to many of those, a hieroglyph of a man (or woman) holding a
> laptop is positively orthodox!
>
> --Ken
>
> On 2/13/2020 11:47 AM, Phake Nick via Unicode wrote:
>> Those characters could also be put into another block for the same
>> script similar to how dubious characters in CJK are included by
>> placing them into "CJK Compatibility Ideographs" for round trip
>> compatibility with source encoding.
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