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Originally Posted by bookman156
Yes, certainly I make a character style for Chinese. Then that will become the style name of the exported span class.
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Most people don't use Styles, so just wanted to make sure.
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Originally Posted by bookman156
I'm not sure what these new characters are.
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Here's all the characters coming down the pipeline in Unicode 15.0:
https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-15.0/
Looks like it's all in the
"CJK Unified Ideographs Extension H" section (click for PDF).
Similar can be found for:
If you visit that page + click on the categories, you can get PDFs showing you every newly accepted character highlighted in yellow.
They also have the page:
which lists/describes all the CJK sources in detail.
(Looks like 11.0 + 13.0 added lots of characters from a 2013 document published by the Chinese government.)
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Originally Posted by bookman156
In Chinese, believe it or not, you can actually get a dictionary several inches thick of ancient characters no-one knows the meaning of! What a great idea for a dictionary.
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Well, the mission is to digitize and preserve all the languages in the world.
And the characters must exist in some authoritative source somewhere, no matter how rare.
Unicode has quite a high bar to get new ones accepted.
Heck, it was only in 2009 (Unicode 5.2) when Egyptian Hieroglyphics were added!