Authoritative classification and names of Chinese character strokes?
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Jackdk -
I can confirm that the Code2000 font implements all the Unicode-characters U+31C0 - U+31E3. So
with this font is is possible to view all the CJK-strokes in the Unicode-standard - and that is
very good news indeed. See screen shot below.
It is IMHO however not an extremely beautiful implementation. It seems to be a
'printed-character'-style font, but the 'dot' at the end of 'heng' is smaller than it would
normally be. Many of the strokes looks a little too... cheap ...inconsistent...and perhaps as
mixture of the two main character types? 'dian' is longer, slimmer and less curved than I would
normally see in 'printed'-type characters.
Another problem is that when rendering some characters at 9-10 CPI on my monitor, such as the
aforementioned character with the O-stroke, parts of the characters are not visible. The same
characters are clearly displayed using other "normal" Chinese fonts.
I'll continue searching for another implementation or two .
strokes.PNG.
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Jackdk -
About to the 'O-stroke and the 㔔-character':
Various Chinese people I've spoken to seems to suggest two different possible explanations:
1. The O-stroke could be a placeholder indicating a place (space) to write another (normal)
character component.
2. The 㔔-character is a character bordering Korean language, and this page seems to suggest that
it could be the Korean name 'kang'.
I would put my money on the last explanation. But both suggestions could perhaps explain why it's
difficult to locate the character in a Chinese dictionary.
889 -
No, Code2000 doesn't look very attractive on screen, does it.
As to the ISO document and Unicode classification, remember that these implement not Chinese but
CJK coding, as in Chinese-Japanese-Korean. So of course they would code a stroke used only in
Korean.
Jackdk -
I haven't been able to locate any other fonts and according to this page Code2000 is currently the
only implementation .
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