Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2014-12-24 16:09:07) > Quoting Paul Wise (2014-12-24 15:11:51) >> On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 4:07 PM, Shih-Yuan Lee (FourDollars) wrote: >>> I am the maintainer of >>> https://packages.qa.debian.org/f/fonts-cns11643.html. CNS11643 is >>> the national encoding standard in Taiwan [1] from >>> http://data.gov.tw/node/5961. >> >> It is interesting they don't use Unicode as the standard encoding, is >> there a story behind that decision? > > An english page at the official CNS11643 site has some historic info: > <http://www.cns11643.gov.tw/AIDB/intro_en.do>. > > Seems to me that it predates (at least the the time of success for) > Unicode, and is maintained for legacy reasons: Above site mentions > that "Unicode and CNS codes can be fully cross-referenced". Seems that only 7 of the 107154 characters in CNS11643 are not covered in Unicode: <http://www.cns11643.gov.tw/AIDB/statistics_en.do> (page requires javascript but only from same site). - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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