Todo

From CharacterDB

• Better integration of glyph editing in Character page
• Check input decomposition
  • Put links to glyphs in decomposition string
  • Limit character input field to Unicode unified ideographs
  • Limit radical input field to radical forms
• Handle automatic stroke order vs. manual
• Parser extensions
  • Stroke order from decomposition (see automatic stroke order handling above)
  • Stroke count based on stroke order
  • Stroke order from abbreviations to Unicode forms
• Purge character page automatically if glyph has been added
• Mark glyphs that are only found as components
• Radical pages should use Kangxi index not radical form which can be used in decomposition.
• Rethink technical implementation of character domain
• Variant characters (similar, semantic, simplified...)
• Reading information
• Supply default glyph to unspecified locales
• Import
• Export
  • Ask query only shows the first 10.000 results

[edit] Nice to have

• How to delete glyphs? Glyph forms in use should be deprecated not deleted
• Browsing characters
• Link to characters inside decomposition
• Add editing helpers, e.g.:
  • In decomposition form: show all radical glyphs for the character
  • In decomposition form: show all characters with stroke count equal to character stroke count - radical stroke count
  • In manual stroke order form: show stroke orders of single components
  • Show similar decompositions to find cases where a complex decomposition can be simplified by expressing a partial tree by a single character, e.g. ⿰氵⿰⿱口耳戈 => ⿰氵戢 for 濈.
• Show a warning if character has no glyph for a specific locale but its usage is indicated by a certain character domain attached to this locale. (Doesn't work with defaults system)
• Show stroke counts that don't match stroke count given by Unihan
• Make a Errors page that lists all inconsistencies in the database.

[edit] Open questions

• Prefer alphabetic input or encoded stroke forms for stroke order? Possibly on-the-fly conversion with Javascript
• How to maintain data from external sources
  • Allow editing?
  • Read from an SQL source?
• How to record sources for data?

[edit] Further points

Page	Item
Character decomposition	Give meaningful examples and describe their usage and link to similar IDS operators that should not get confused. Transfer decomposition guidelines from http://code.google.com/p/cjklib/wiki/Decomposition Describe IDS structure and derivation from the definition by Unicode.
IDSOperator	Show stroke order rules for each structure.
Stroke order	Good examples of occurrences in glyphs. Link to similar strokes that can be confused easily. Importance of stroke count for indexing. Depends on locale. Radical indexing and remaining count.