Gap at U+2FE0

Wáng Yifán 747.neutron at gmail.com
Mon Oct 25 02:03:47 CDT 2021


> What is the intended use case for variation selectors to represent region-specific CJK character glyphs?

It's not that I fall in with turning that section into variation
selectors, but it'd be sometimes a lot easier to convince (non-CJK)
developers to include a pan-CJK font than three or four each is
already darn huge for them, especially game dev.


2021年10月24日(日) 4:49 Doug Ewell via Unicode <unicode at corp.unicode.org>:
>
> Michel Mariani wrote:
>
> > BTW, the existence of this still empty "modest" block of sixteen
> > characters would have been a good opportunity to efficiently encode a
> > set of CJK-specific variation selectors which could have been used to
> > represent region-specific CJK character glyphs, inspired by the the
> > clever (unofficial) scheme proposed in the
> > https://github.com/adobe-type-tools/pancjkv-ivd-collection, which IMHO
> > would be far more acceptable if the specific variation selectors were
> > all as short as possible. After all, one of the original aims of Han
> > Unification was the possibility to "pack" all CJK characters in 16
> > bits...
>
> What is the intended use case for variation selectors to represent region-specific CJK character glyphs?
>
> --
> Doug Ewell, CC, ALB | Lakewood, CO, US | ewellic.org
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