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 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
Oh, I didn't know they have actually released a font of this. :o) I was told, that they abandoned the project... I only know of the CNS11643 standard, but the CCCII included much more, right? > 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 :-). wow. :) > 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. I see... Cheers Arne -- Arne GÃtje (éçè) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/685D1E8C Fingerprint: 2056 F6B7 DEA8 B478 311F 1C34 6E9F D06E 685D 1E8C Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred.
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