Egyptian Hieroglyph Man with a Laptop

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Thu Feb 13 19:03:20 CST 2020



Strange, has several meanings, not all positive. Perhaps the term 
outlier is less ambiguous. One definition is unfamiliar, some outliers 
over time become widespread in use, become famliar we no longer consider 
them strange, but as they are still different are still outliers. CJK is 
a living script so new characters come and go, not all become widespread 
in there use.

"Egyptologist" is certainly an outlier, an certainly strange to me. One 
question is what do "Egyptologist" think of it.

John

On 2020-02-14 08:13, Ken Whistler via Unicode wrote:
> Well, no, in this case "strange" means strange, as Ken Lunde notes.
> I'm just pointing to his list, because it pulls together quite a few
> Han characters that *also* have dubious cases for encoding.
> 
> Or you could turn the argument around, I suppose, and note that just
> because the hieroglyph for "Egyptologist" is strange, that doesn't
> necessarily mean that the case for encoding it is dubious. ;-)
> 
> --Ken
> 
> On 2/13/2020 3:47 PM, jk at koremail.com wrote:
>> 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.
>> 



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