> I only know of the CNS11643 standard, but the CCCII included much more,
> right?
Yes. IIRC, there are about 7 characters. Anyway, the main
developer has died before the project has been finished, and there was
no successor to complete (and the involved people have probably also
realized
On Thursday 24 March 2005 13:49, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > There had been efforts to create a charset in Taiwan in the 1980s,
> > which includes all known varients (more than 100,000 characters),
> > each one having a distinctive codepoint. The idea was to let the
> > input method engine handle th
> There had been efforts to create a charset in Taiwan in the 1980s,
> which includes all known varients (more than 100,000 characters),
> each one having a distinctive codepoint. The idea was to let the
> input method engine handle this. For example, you type 'gu3' for
> 'bone', select the bone
> Although DynaLab was the font foundry commissioned by the MOE to
> create the new standard character shapes to be used in Taiwan,
> Arphic also sells a font of standard character shapes the MOE would
> approve of. I bought my copy in Taiwan in Jan 2001.
Interesting. Which one?
I'm only aware
On Thursday 24 March 2005 10:30, Theron Stanford wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 10:10:53 +0800, Arne GÃtje (éçè)
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Traditionally the characters have been written all the same way in
> > all CJK areas (China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Vietnam).
>
> This is not true
On Thursday 24 March 2005 03:45, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
> > But not all fonts reflect those attitudes. Fonts develped in
> > Mainland China *have to follow the GB1830 standard*, so there
> > is no other option.
>
> So GB1830 is a standard for the actual appearance of the glyphs?
Yes, I don't kn
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 10:10:53 +0800, Arne GÃtje (éçè) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Traditionally the characters have been written all the same way in all
> CJK areas (China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Vietnam).
This is not true. The shapes of many characters used in both China
and Japan di
Arne GÃtje (éçè) wrote:
Ok, I think I need to explain this a bit. [..]
Thanks very much for this clear explanation.
But not all fonts reflect those attitudes. Fonts develped in
Mainland China *have to follow the GB1830 standard*, so there
is no other option.
So GB1830 is a standard for the actual a
