> 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 character and then get a list of possible
> presentation forms to choose from. The character set still exists
> (I don't know the standards number though), but noone has ever
> implemented fonts or input methods for that. It's simpley too much
> work and not really needed.
If you are talking about CCCII, this is not correct. There is a set
of bitmap fonts available which covers all CCCII glyphs. Christian
Wittern provided a mapping to CNS (which unfortunately contained many
off-by-one errors). A few years ago I even typeset a CCCII->CNS table
using those fonts in an attempt to fix those errors -- I even have the
CCCII books at home (this is about 50cm on my bookshelf :-).
There is also a 4corner table for the whole CNS character set (again
developed by Christian Wittern); I've converted it to an Emacs input
method which works just fine.
Today, with the many new Unicode characters, CCCII is *really*
obsolete.
Werner
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