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Oh, interesting, didn't know that they "create" a new Kanji with the sum of all the possible kanjis in the Era name. Two questions: - Should I be safe in the w
by tecleandor 8y ago
Oh, interesting, didn't know that they "create" a new Kanji with the sum of all the possible kanjis in the Era name. Two questions:
- Should I be safe in the way that, even in my software doesn't support that unicode version, or my font doesn't have that symbol, I'll at least get a "notdef" or whatever symbol and not break everything?
- what if the new name is composed by just one Kanji? Is it getting an unicode symbol anyway? Is it considered a different Kanji?
- fenomas 8y agoTo be clear there's no new kanji being created here, just a new unicode character with two existing kanji compacted into one glyph. So most typical use cases won't be affected either way, since era names are normally just written with two regular characters rather than with the compacted one.
- Nullabillity 8y agoSo what's the point then? This sounds like a job for font ligatures.
- fenomas 8y agoI don't know much about unicode but presumably it's analogous to characters like "㎏" or "㎒". There are quite a lot of code points for several characters compressed into one glyph.
- Freak_NL 8y ago> what if the new name is composed by just one Kanji? It will be two existing kanji. That's pretty much a given. Don't worry about it. These compound characters are compatibility characters for older software, and for use as a compact notation in print (i.e., it is mostly a display issue). Any new code point assigned will not be in use now (U+32FF), so you won't break anything. Your software may display a box with the code point address in it, or just an empty box, instead of a glyph from one of the installed fonts. If you deal with years written with the era name, you tend to get them written as two characters. This year (until the abdication) is 平成３１年 (year 31 of Heisei). Abbreviations do occur; you will then get only the first character of the name era, so 平３１. This is why the new name will not start with 平, 昭, 大, or 明 (the first characters of the past four era names).
- masklinn 8y ago> Oh, interesting, didn't know that they "create" a new Kanji with the sum of all the possible kanjis in the Era name. They don't really, they create a new codepoint for a special (<square> in this case) composition of the era name. > Should I be safe in the way that, even in my software doesn't support that unicode version, or my font doesn't have that symbol It might fallback on the compatibility decomposition (the two combined kanji, so instead of "㍻" you'd have "平成".