Thanks for the enightening me regarding the CHANT website fonts. Now if ICS1 (and ICS2 and ICS6) would work, I could count this as a major victory.
My "correct" characters were simply what I know to be the right ones by looking at hard copies and the only place I've seen them on my computer screen, in the Unicode CJK Extensions. I realize now the blanks actually refer to what is the same character by sight, but in the ICS1 font. Re Eric's comments on the fonts: for anyone interested in sinology in general, it is really a superior site all-around, the texts are collated against other major recensions and character variants duly noted, and I hope it will continue to enlarge as they add texts to it. Allen Haaheim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Rasmussen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 7:38 AM Subject: Re: CJK question > > From: "Allen Haaheim" > > ... it seems that "[s]ince GB18030 is fully ISO 10646 compatible, it > > readily supports CJK Extension B and other languages." I don't have > > the GB18030 font or Extension B Charset in my machine. Can I load CJK > > Extensions A and B without switching to XP? I would prefer to use > > Win2000, or the ME which I am running now, but if necessary I can use > > XP. > > In terms of CJK glyphs, the GB 18030 character set only includes the > CJK Ideographs and CJK Ideographs Extension A blocks. In terms of > encodings, it supports the Supplementary Ideographic Plane (and thus > CJK Ideographs Extension B), but no SIP characters are currently > defined in GB 18030. So the "SimSun 18030" font that comes with the GB > 18030 support package is not a misnomer: it does contain the complete > character set. > > Windows 2000 will do, but you must have Office XP. I have Windows 2000 > with Office XP with the 2002 Proofing Tools installed. The extended > font is called "SimSun (Founder Extended)" [filename: SURSONG.TTF] and > contains around 64,000 CJK Ideographs: most of Extension B, but not > all. I have access to this entire font via the Simplified Chinese > "Enhanced Unicode IME" which has already been mentioned, via the UTF-16 > code (not the scalar value). > > > From: "Allen Haaheim" > > I tried what you suggested with unipad, but for some reason it went to > > a location on a PUA character map, rather than CJK Unified Ideographs > > Extension B, where they are in fact located. > > It goes to a PUA location because that is where that character is > located in the appropriate CHANT font. The two examples you gave go to > E596 and E58E, as has been noted. The correct characters are in the > "ICS1" font. I would be curious to know how many of the glyphs in ICS1 > are now in Unicode, and which are not. ICS3 has a very nicely and > accurately rendered set of oracle-bone and early bronze-inscription > characters, by the way. > > Regards, Eric Rasmussen > > >
