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A proposal to encode Taiwanese kana in Unicode (the Universal Coded Character Set)
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Name of the block #1

Closed pcchen closed 4 years ago

pcchen commented 4 years ago

In early version of the draft, it seems that "Taiwanese Kana" is also proposed as the name of the block. I would second the proposal to use "Katakana Phonetic Extension Extended-A" as the block name for the following reasons:

Some of the extensions has also been used for other languages. In Taiwan, they have also been used to write Hakka in Taiwan. (Note that during the Japanese ruling period, the language is referred as 廣東話 (Canton language) but it actually means Hakka, not Cantonese. This is because Hakka in Taiwan are mostly originally from Canton area.) The Hakka Kana literature is much less than Taiwanese Kana. But they do exist. (also related to the name of the tone mark, see another issues.)

I also known that Kana has been used to write Fuzhou https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzhou_dialect but with even less literature.

ctrlcctrlv commented 4 years ago

Yup I removed the alternative name idea, I'll only be proposing Katakana Phonetic Extension Extended-A :-)