Comments on the Unicode Codepoints and IDNA Internet-Draft

[Kent Karlsson]

Edmon wrote:
> Perhaps it is better to view it in a separate light.
> 
> If we look at the blocks for CJK Radicals and strokes:
> 2E80..2E99  ; DISALLOWED  # CJK RADICAL REPEAT..CJK RADICAL RAP
> 2E9B..2EF3  ; DISALLOWED  # CJK RADICAL CHOKE..CJK RADICAL 
> C-SIMPLIFIED
> 2F00..2FD5  ; DISALLOWED  # KANGXI RADICAL ONE..KANGXI RADICAL FLUTE
> 31C0..31E3  ; DISALLOWED  # CJK STROKE T..CJK STROKE Q
> 
> We see that they are disallowed.  Similarly, Yi radicals are 
> disallowed.
> 
> As I understand it Jamo could be considered in similar light, 
> and therefore, it seems there is good basis to treat them similarly.

Except that Hangul Jamo are conjoining, and can be used to write
Hangul syllables, while the radical and stroke characters are not
conjoining and cannot be used to write CJK ideographs (though they
can be used in describing CJK ideographs).

The situations are thus quite dissimilar.

	/kent k