Re: New Public Review Issue: #108 Ideographic Variation Database Submission

Dear Sirs,

Although I sent my comment for PRI #108 via web reporting form,
here I send CC for anybody interested in.

Still I wish if I the base characters of Adobe-Japan1 IVS
were restricted to the sum of JIS character sets, but my
comment about it is completely same with my previous comment,
and I omit it.

Regards,
mpsuzuki

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According to Adobe TechNote #5078 p. 96 clause #9,
the glyph for the variation sequence VS19-12869
used for U+6CE8 (partial chart p. 11) is a glyph
introduced for "ruby" typesetting, not for standard
CJK ideograph. In plain text of Unicode, the ruby
may be coded by the interlinear annotations (U+FFF9
- U+FFFB), so the relationship between using
VS19-12869 and using interlinear annotations should
be clarified: VS19-12869 should be used with or
without the interlinear annotations?

In addition, as I commented for PRI #98, many glyphs
introduced for radical exemplifications are assigned
variation sequences as the ideograph variant.
I guess the variation sequences for these glyphs are
NOT intended to be unique character encoding for these
glyphs, it just provides the variation sequences from
the side of Unified CJK ideographs.
If my guess is right, is there any reason to ignore
the ideographic glyphs in Adobe TechNote #5078
p. 160 from 16285 to 16298? Adobe TechNote #5078
does not comment explicitly, I guess these glyphs
are introduced for Kanbun (U+3190-U+319F).

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Rick McGowan wrote:
> The Ideographic Variation Database provides a registry for collections of  
> unique variation sequences containing unified ideographs, allowing for  
> standardized interchange according to UTS#37, Ideographic Variation  
> Database (http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr37/). A submission to the  
> Ideographic Variation Database has been received for: "Combined  
> registration of the Adobe-Japan1 collection and of sequences in that  
> collection".
>
> This is a second round of review for this submission. As a result of the  
> review of Adobe's original submission (PRI #98) several errors have been  
> corrected and feedback incorporated.
>
> The main IVD page is here:
> 	http://www.unicode.org/ivd/
> and the IVD review page for this submission is here:
> 	http://www.unicode.org/ivd/pri/pri108/index.html
>
> The closing date for comments is 2007/11/25.
>
> Reviewers are encouraged to comment on any aspect of the submissions, but  
> more particularly on:
>
>   * whether the intent of a proposed collection is
>     appropriately described
>   * whether the glyphic subset corresponding to a proposed
>     sequence is indeed a glyphic subset of the base character
>     for the sequence
>   * whether the proposed sequences are congruent with the
>     scope of their collection, or whether a new collection
>     may be more appropriate
>
> All comments should be sent via the reporting form and will be forwarded  
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> 	Rick McGowan
> 	Unicode, Inc.
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