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From: henry@angel.Eng.Sun.COM (Henry McGilton)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: X kanji font k14 question
Summary: Phonetic Order
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Date: 30 Oct 90 21:53:18 GMT
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In article <29326@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, shirriff@sprite.berkeley.edu (Ken Shirriff) writes:

    *  Can anyone explain the order of the kanji characters in
    *  the X font "k14" (JISX0208.1983 encoding)?  It has
    *  several thousand kanji characters, but as far as I can
    *  tell, they're in a random order.
To the best of my admittedly minuscule knowledge, the characters
are arranged in phonetic order according to their ON readings.
At least that's how they're arranged in my Ryumin-Light and Gothic
fonts on the laser printer.

	........  Henry