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Huh. IIRC they're a bit more common than that, but yes, not very common. Or perhaps you're just talking about Chinese where I'm also considering Kanji and othe
by Manishearth 10y ago
Huh. IIRC they're a bit more common than that, but yes, not very common.
Or perhaps you're just talking about Chinese where I'm also considering Kanji and others. Which isn't from the most spoken language in the world, but still, top 10!
- Freak_NL 10y agoActually for Japanese in particular the extended CJK ranges are of limited use (I'm more familiar with Japanese than Chinese), although they do contain the parts of JIS X 0213 that were still missing from Unicode (all of them rare characters) and some ideographical component parts that are useful for dictionary and educational software. With the latter you can for example use Unicode codepoints for the distinct components of a single Chinese character (e.g., 𠂉 as the top-right part of 族). That is a fairly specialised use though. For Korean and Vietnamese the extra Chinese characters might apply to ancient names (geographical usually I would wager), but neither language has a lot of ideographs in modern usage. It's certainly an interesting topic though.