Question: is there a unique "best" encoding for each character?

[eweitnauer]

Very cool project!

I was wondering if you have any thoughts on how unique the description for a character in your system is. There are obviously several ways to describe each character (e.g. by "zooming out"), but maybe there is always a "best" or most condensed way. What is your experience in encoding the characters so far? Have there been cases where two encoding options seemed equally good, or cases where you used different encoding for the same component to make it work in different contexts?

Here is an example of encoding a component in two different ways, side by side:

PS: Let me know if there is a better place to ask questions like this, e.g. some chat server!

[LingDong-]

Hi eweitnauer,

Good question! I usually choose the more concise way to encode the characters when there are multiple options, as long as it doesn’t cause confusion/ugliness.

Additionally, some components that doesn’t have apparent horizontal/vertical structure can be encoded either using “row-major” (1-2)|(3-4) or “column major” (1|3)-(2|4). In these situations, if the components is often packed horizontally with other components, I will use column major and vice versa to make the result look nicer. For example, the strokes in (1|3)-(2|4)-(5|6) look more well-proportioned than ((1-2)|(3-4))-(5|6).

PS. Please feel free to discuss in Issues, usually I reply faster but sorry I was having a busy last week :)