Re: Stroke encoding?

["Gabriel Landini" <G.Landini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 28 Feb 2002 at 9:25, Jacques Guy wrote:
> Example. Take yan2 ("speech") for instance. It goes:
> 
> dot, long horizontal, short horizontal, short horizontal,
> mouth. Total: 7 strokes.

I see a problem with stroke encoding. Why? because 
1. Kanjis are not always written top-bottom,
2. Some kanjis have radicals, which are in fact kanjis made out of more (smaller, but not less 
complicated) kanjis.
One would need spatial localisation of the strokes within the "kanji space". Without this, the reader does 
not know where the author was "writing".
Just recording the strokes would be quite messy.

Cheers,

Gabriel