From: Thomas Chan
Message: 107
Date: 2000-10-31
> [Jon Babcock (Re: CJK combining components (was RE: "Giga ...)) writes:]I suppose "instructional books" says it all, but is such a system intended
> >> >>>>> Jim Breen <jwb@...> writes:
> >> > As I mentioned before, my main interest in the decomposition technique
> >> > is as an aid for dictionary searching. If someone were to come up with a
> >> > useful system, I'd like to be able to use it to extend my coverage
> >> > beyond the 6,355 kanji in JIS X 0208.
> >>
> >> It would seem that any new system would not help in using the existing
> >> dictionaries. Or, do you mean to extend the coverage of the dictionaries you
> >> are making and provide an alternate system of organizing the kanji?
>
> Well, au contraire, it can lead directly into several dictionaries. For example, my
> dictionary files of the "JIS" kanji (6,355 + 5,801) have the indices for about half
> a dozen dictionaries and instructional books, including the Daikanwajiten. Thus with
> appropriate software you can use the fragments to identify an obscure kanji, and
> have immediate pointers to it the dictionaries.