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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master 15afa72460b: Fix 'script-representative-chars' for the 'han' script
Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2024 07:57:22 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86ttg0ubpp.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87le1dp2gb.fsf@yahoo.com> (message from Po Lu on Sun, 04 Aug 2024 08:16:20 +0800)

> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2024 08:16:20 +0800
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> Someone reports that this set of characters still does not enable the
> >> detection of WenQuanYi Micro Hei, which is certainly complete enough to
> >> display all Han text that will be encountered in practice.  U+2E90,
> >> U+2F00, U+3300 and U+3400 are absent from this font, and quite
> >> reasonably so, since they are freestanding radicals, Kana, which belong
> >> in the entry for kana rather than han, or obsolete.
> >
> > On what system did that happen?
> 
> Not "what system", "which font": WenQuanYi Micro Hei, one of the better
> free Han fonts.

<Shrug>Then users should perhaps look for better fonts.  I'm quite
astonished to hear that free fonts on free systems do so much worse a
job than MS-Windows.  I have hard time believing that.

> > And I don't understand why you say these characters are Kana, this
> > page disagrees:
> >
> >   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangxi_radical
> 
> That's U+2E90.  U+3300 is Kana, according to Scripts.txt:
> 
> 3300..3357    ; Katakana # So  [88] SQUARE APAATO..SQUARE WATTO

That's just one block out of 4 that you mentioned.  And if we want to
treat that as Kana, we should change admin/blocks.awk first.



  reply	other threads:[~2024-08-04  4:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <172267024373.1752.11669700725951474437@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org>
     [not found] ` <20240803073044.42052C1CAF7@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org>
2024-08-03  9:27   ` master 15afa72460b: Fix 'script-representative-chars' for the 'han' script Po Lu
2024-08-03 15:23     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-04  0:16       ` Po Lu
2024-08-04  4:57         ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-08-04  7:58           ` Po Lu
2024-08-05 16:25         ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-05 23:58           ` Po Lu
2024-08-06 11:35             ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-07  0:17               ` Po Lu
2024-08-07 11:47                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-07 12:12                   ` Po Lu

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