Unihan database
Librarians are certainly a group of users using Unihan a lot, to identify encodings for rare characters. Several of them have complained that it gets more and more difficult to use for them. One issue is, that the database itself started to use encodings rather than images; which made it impossible to find characters in versions their standard SimSun fonts did not support. That of course had a solution; they should now choose “use images”. But now they report that the radical-stroke page itself has changed to encodings rather than images; and the radicals are not in the standard fonts. Hence, the search pages (clicking on the number of strokes of the radical) shows something like [cid:image001.png@01CD1970.6D5040E0] Can there be a change so that also these pages (based upon the number of strokes of the radical) has an option to show these pages, not only the result, have a “display with images” option? Martin J. Heijdra Chinese Studies/East Asian Studies Bibliographer East Asian Library and the Gest Collection Frist Campus Center, Room 314 Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544 United States inline: image001.png
Re: Unihan database
Yes, this is very much possible, although I can't predict how soon we'll get it done. Martin Heijdra mheij...@princeton.edu 於 2012年4月13日 上午10:26 寫道： Librarians are certainly a group of users using Unihan a lot, to identify encodings for rare characters. Several of them have complained that it gets more and more difficult to use for them. One issue is, that the database itself started to use encodings rather than images; which made it impossible to find characters in versions their standard SimSun fonts did not support. That of course had a solution; they should now choose “use images”. But now they report that the radical-stroke page itself has changed to encodings rather than images; and the radicals are not in the standard fonts. Hence, the search pages (clicking on the number of strokes of the radical) shows something like image001.png Can there be a change so that also these pages (based upon the number of strokes of the radical) has an option to show these pages, not only the result, have a “display with images” option? Martin J. Heijdra Chinese Studies/East Asian Studies Bibliographer East Asian Library and the Gest Collection Frist Campus Center, Room 314 Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544 United States = John H. Jenkins 井作恆 Жбь А. ЖЩэпЮьц jenk...@apple.com
Re: [unicode] Unihan database
I think this comment is related with the current implementation of SimSun. Why don't you try to install the free fonts that can support the missing characters? From the viewpoint of an user over the distant network, the images-by-default is worse in some cases... Regards, mpsuzuki Martin Heijdra wrote: Librarians are certainly a group of users using Unihan a lot, to identify encodings for rare characters. Several of them have complained that it gets more and more difficult to use for them. One issue is, that the database itself started to use encodings rather than images; which made it impossible to find characters in versions their standard SimSun fonts did not support. That of course had a solution; they should now choose “use images”. But now they report that the radical-stroke page itself has changed to encodings rather than images; and the radicals are not in the standard fonts. Hence, the search pages (clicking on the number of strokes of the radical) shows something like [cid:image001.png@01CD1970.6D5040E0] Can there be a change so that also these pages (based upon the number of strokes of the radical) has an option to show these pages, not only the result, have a “display with images” option? Martin J. Heijdra Chinese Studies/East Asian Studies Bibliographer East Asian Library and the Gest Collection Frist Campus Center, Room 314 Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544 United States
Re: Unihan database
On 2012-04-13, Martin Heijdra mheij...@princeton.edu wrote: But now they report that the radical-stroke page itself has changed to encodings rather than images; and the radicals are not in the standard fonts. Hence, the search pages (clicking on the number of strokes of the radical) shows something like Ouch. Yes, the radicals aren't in the arial that's the default font on my Linux system, so now I can't use radical search either. Firefox font configuration is, um, not totally documented, either, so I don't even know if it's possible to tell it to use a different font for the radical block. -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
RE: [unicode] Unihan database
Yes, I know there are other possibilities--but in a work environment, we are not always free to download, install, replace... Thank you, John, for looking into this. Martin -Original Message- From: suzuki toshiya [mailto:mpsuz...@hiroshima-u.ac.jp] Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 1:12 PM To: Martin Heijdra Cc: unicode@unicode.org Subject: Re: [unicode] Unihan database I think this comment is related with the current implementation of SimSun. Why don't you try to install the free fonts that can support the missing characters? From the viewpoint of an user over the distant network, the images-by-default is worse in some cases... Regards, mpsuzuki Martin Heijdra wrote: Librarians are certainly a group of users using Unihan a lot, to identify encodings for rare characters. Several of them have complained that it gets more and more difficult to use for them. One issue is, that the database itself started to use encodings rather than images; which made it impossible to find characters in versions their standard SimSun fonts did not support. That of course had a solution; they should now choose “use images”. But now they report that the radical-stroke page itself has changed to encodings rather than images; and the radicals are not in the standard fonts. Hence, the search pages (clicking on the number of strokes of the radical) shows something like [cid:image001.png@01CD1970.6D5040E0] Can there be a change so that also these pages (based upon the number of strokes of the radical) has an option to show these pages, not only the result, have a “display with images” option? Martin J. Heijdra Chinese Studies/East Asian Studies Bibliographer East Asian Library and the Gest Collection Frist Campus Center, Room 314 Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544 United States
