Re: [idn] An ignorant question about TC<-> SC

["James Seng/Personal" <jseng@pobox.org.sg>]

>  From linguistic on phoneme analysis,  TC/SC are identical by
> all authoritive dictionaries and standards with exceptions
> listed (for dialective and historical use).

It should be "TC/SC Phrase" to be more exact.

There is also a problem with "identical by all authoritive
dictionaries". All dictionaries have (slight/some) differences in what
they considered identical. The devil is in the level of details.

> To treat UCS code points on the same base, the 4,000 to 20,000
> number needs to be doubled, and treat TC/SC in a general way
> is a test for correctly treat 8,000 to 56,000 symbols for the long
run.

There are 70,000+ han ideograph in ISO10646:2001.

-James Seng