Capitilisation in unicode character names

Bug #542590 reported by Max Rabkin
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Bug Description

<tibid> Taejo: U+9AAC is CJK Unified Ideograph-9Aac (骬), a letter with left-to-right directionality

"CJK Unified Ideograph-9AAC" would be better.

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Max Rabkin (max-rabkin) wrote :

<Taejo> tibid: unicode 日
<tibid> Taejo: '日' is CJK Unified Ideograph-65E5 (U+65E5), a letter with left-to-right directionality

The names of Han characters aren't very useful in telling you what character you're working with. Something like this might be better:

'日' is CJK Unified Ideograph-65E5 (U+65E5), a letter with left-to-right directionality, meaning "sun; day; daytime". Readings: rì (Pinyin), il/일 (Korean), nichi or jitsu (Japanese On) or hi, ka or hibi (Japanese Kun).

The Unihan database also contains variant characters (incl. simplified/traditional) and pronunciations in Vietnamese, Cantonese and reconstructed Tang. These are probably less useful (but if anyone wants them, they can shout)

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Max Rabkin (max-rabkin) wrote :

Oops... that was supposed to be a separate bug.

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