On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 12:33:12 +0000 (GMT), Andrew Dunbar
<hippietrail@...> wrote:

>
> I'm also interested to learn more about other variant
> characters. For instance, the character for "sword"
> has 5 variants I can find apart from the traditional,
> the Japanese simplified, and the Chinese simplified.
> Some vary the "knife" radical, some use "gold" for the
> other component instead of the usual "all/together".

*nods* Ken Lunde, author of "CJKV Information Processing" (
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/cjkvinfo/ ), remarks on this in his
book; the character is of special interest to him since it's the one
he uses in the Japanese version of his name, Kobayashi Ken.

Cheers,
--
Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>