On Thu, 26 Oct 2000 Marco.Cimarosti@... wrote:

> As I understand it, the discussion is about both things -- but a
> hypothetical "decomposed encoding" is the focus, rather than not.
>
> What I said on the Unicode List was that such an *encoding* could have a few
> benefits, one of which is simplifying the design of fonts.

A secondary benefit of having a canonical decomposition for hanzi is that
this decomposition could be used as a base for a radical+strokes based
ordering.

P.