In the next version of WinCALIS, which will be a 32-bit version for Windows 95 and Windows NT, we look forward to addressing all fonts directly via Unicodes. Fonts will no longer be bound by the limitation to 256 characters as in Windows 3.1, and will be able to be grouped in font files by basic script family--Latin, Cyrillic, Arabic, and so on. Our preliminary tests of Unicode font addressing with beta versions of Windows 95 have been quite successful.

Record for the Han character U+4F1A in the "CJK Font Resource Database"

WC2_Uni
Unicode
GBQuWei
BigFive
CNS
JIS_X
KS_C
ANSIZ39
CCCII_X
Xerox
JEF
GB_Hex
GB_EUC
DCTCode
DCTFNo
DCTCNo
Pinyin
Zhuyin2
Tone
Eng_Tag
Type
[4F1A]
[4F1A]
[0-2765]
[* ]
[E-2275]
[0-1881]
[* ]
[27435A]
[27435A]
[* ]
[* ]
[3B61]
[BBE1]
[0AA0]
[10]
[159]
[huì ]
[huei ]
[\]
[meeting ]
[S J ]
SCang
CCang
CfSCang
CfCCang1
CfCCang2
CfCCang3
TaiCang
Telecode
Block
CfUni1
CfUni2
CfUni3
CfUni4
KS_Hex
KS_EUC
Kor_Pron
Notes
GBFntNo
B5FntNo
CfBig5
CfGB
[OMMI ]
[ ]
[ ]
[OMWA ]
[ ]
[ ]
[ ]
[ 0]
[10]
[6703]
[ ]
[ ]
[ ]
[ ]
[ ]
[ ]
[
[1098]
[ 0]
[B77C]
[ 0]
 KXRadic
RemStrok
TotStrok
JISFNo
JISKuTen
JIS_Hex
ShftJIS
JIS_EUC
Jpn_ON
Jpn_Kun
RendCode
SerNo
KorFntNo
 [ 9]
[ 4]
[ 6]
[ 268]
[ 1881]
[3271]
[89EF]
[B2F1]
[e ]
[a(u) ]
[4F1A]
[3725 ]
[ 0]



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Notes

Just as Han unification has been one of the most significant achievements of the Unicode Consortium, the implementation of the Unicode Han character set as part of our Chinese-Japanese-Korean language support is one of our most successful but time-consuming achievements. We currently have (raster) fonts and internal dictionary links for over 16,000 of the 21,000 Unicode Han characters. The development and maintenance of a CJK Font Resource Database has been critical in keeping track of all these characters and developing a font which maintains a high degree of accuracy befitting a pedagogical application.

A record for each character identifies it through its basic coding information, indicates (in the "Type" field) whether it is a S[imple] Chinese character, a C[omplex] Chinese character, a J[apanese] character, or a K[orean] character, and gives links to other codes. The "Block" field is an attempt at modularity within the 21,000-character Unicode code space, indicating a rough frequency for each character (10 being the highest). Before hard disk size increased so rapidly, we believed that it would be preferable both pedagogically and technically to package the Han character font in incremental modules of 4000 characters or so. But our current full 24x24 raster CJK Han font occupies only about 1.5 megabytes of disk space. The TrueType fonts which we will have in our next version 3.0 may prove more costly in disk space.

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