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Rick, First of all, I must apologize if you feel offended. I think that our difference is not understanding of the fact but rather sentiment about it. Among 43,253 CJK characters in Extension B, 302 characters are from JIS X 203, which was designed for representing modern Japanese. To me, extension B has many useful name characters, but they are "some exceptions" for you. Rick Jelliffe wrote: > > >Of these, most are CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B. > > >These are characters which must be considered bad practise > > >for use in markup, perhaps with some exceptions. They are mostly > > > characters which readers may easily find confusing, > > >being archaic, regional, variant, uncommon or non-interoperable. > > > > This is completely different from what I have heard from CJK experts. > > Do you have any supporting evidence? > > 1) To answer a question with a question first, have these experts also given > any indication of how many of the approx 71,000 Han ideographs in Unicode > 3.1 are in *current* common use (not being personal names or place names)? No, they have not. As far as I know, six characters in Extension B are as important as or more important than JIS X 0208 kanji characters. They are in current common use. Historically, they existed in the original version of JIS X 0208, but JIS X 0208:1983 adopted their variants. Many people (including the government) believe that this change was a mistake. U+23372 U+26402 U+23647 U+2A602 U+28A99 U+28EEB JIS X 0213 contains about 200 kanjis made in Japan. I will count which of them are in Extension B. On top of them, JIS X 0213 has kanjis for personal names or place names. Cheers, Makoto
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