Language Log has a good article on this, including reactions from several sinographers:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=29034 - JB > On Oct 27, 2016, at 07:48, shi zhao <[email protected]> wrote: > > from > http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/25/opinion/chinas-digital-soft-power-play.html?_r=0 > > <http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/25/opinion/chinas-digital-soft-power-play.html?_r=0> > > This month, the Chinese government plans to introduce codes for some 3,000 > Chinese characters as part of a grand project, known as the China Font Bank, > to digitize 500,000 characters previously unavailable in electronic form. > > The project highlights 100,000 characters from the country’s 56 ethnic > minorities, and another 100,000 rare and ancient characters from China’s > written corpus. Deploying almost 30 companies, institutions and universities, > it’s the largest state-funded digitization project ever undertaken.
