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Jim Blandy <jimb@red-bean.com> writes: > The authors of _An Introduction to Chinese, Japanese, and Korean > Computing_ claim that the designers of the Big Five code actually > copied many kanji from the JIS standard. Many kanji exist in both > Chinese and Japanese, but there are some subtle glyph differences > between them. The Big Five contains many non-Chinese versions of > kanji (and not the actual Chinese equivalent), and no attempt was > made to remedy this problem. > > It sounds to me as if a lot of Big Five will get absorbed through > unification. There is meanwhile a different standard, a coutnerpart of ISO 10646 for China. This is much bigger than Big5 and growing. I would have to look this up in detail (maybe it's CNS 11643). -- Uli ---------------. drepper at gnu.org ,-. Rubensstrasse 5 Ulrich Drepper \ ,-------------------' \ 76149 Karlsruhe/Germany Cygnus Solutions `--' drepper at cygnus.com `------------------------