Ernest Cline writes >>I'm trying to pare Unihan.txt down to a less unwieldy size for my own use by eliminating properties that are of no interest to me ....<<
The sheer size of unihan creates problems, hence the need to extract manageable subsets. This is the basis of my Hanfind: (http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/RaymondM) which isolates Pinyin, definitions, etc etc. Andrew West once suggested that Unihan be converted to an XML file, and would appear to help isolate the different fields. Raymond Mercier