Re: Level of Unicode support required for various languages

[email protected] wrote:
> Quoting James Kass <[email protected]>:
>
>> After all, in UNIHAN.TXT there
>> are many single characters with more than one definition.  Just
>> as there are many English words with more than one meaning.
>>
>> (Examples exist, like U+3ADA (?) and U+66F6 (?).)
>
>
> The two charcaters have different meaning, though i have to admit I am 
> hard pushed to find a font that maintains the differnce in the bottom 
> half of the character &#26352; U+66F0 and &#26085; U+65E5 respectively.
Yeah, and an "x" in English has a different meaning (sound) than an "x" 
in Spanish (letters "mean" sounds; Chinese graphs mean words.  More or 
less).  Yet we still encode them the same because they look the same.  
Unicode generally tries to code what's written more than what's meant, I 
thought.

~mark