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1 ;; -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
2 This package contains data and utilities about structures of
3 Han Ideographs (漢字).
4
5
6 The following files contains the data about structures of Han
7 Ideographs (漢字).
8     
9     IDS-UCS-Basic.txt   CJK Unified Ideographs (U+4E00 〜 U+9FA5)
10                         of ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000
11     IDS-UCS-Ext-A.txt   CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A
12                         (U+3400 〜 U+4DB5, U+FA1F and U+FA23)
13                         of ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000
14     IDS-UCS-Compat.txt  CJK Compatibility Ideographs
15                         (U+F900 〜 U+FA2D, except U+FA1F and U+FA23)
16                         of ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000
17     IDS-UCS-Ext-B-1.txt CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B [part 1]
18                         (U-00020000 〜 U-00021FFF)
19                         of ISO/IEC 10646-2:2001
20     IDS-UCS-Ext-B-2.txt CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B [part 2]
21                         (U-00022000 〜 U-00023FFF)
22                         of ISO/IEC 10646-2:2001
23     IDS-UCS-Ext-B-3.txt CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B [part 3]
24                         (U-00024000 〜 U-00025FFF)
25                         of ISO/IEC 10646-2:2001
26     IDS-UCS-Ext-B-4.txt CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B [part 4]
27                         (U-00026000 〜 U-00027FFF)
28                         of ISO/IEC 10646-2:2001
29     IDS-UCS-Ext-B-5.txt CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B [part 5]
30                         (U-00028000 〜 U-00029FFF)
31                         of ISO/IEC 10646-2:2001
32     IDS-UCS-Ext-B-6.txt CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B [part 6]
33                         (U-0002A000 〜 U-0002A6D6)
34                         of ISO/IEC 10646-2:2001
35     IDS-UCS-Compat-Supplement.txt
36                         CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement
37                         (U-0002F800 〜 U-0002FA1D)
38                         of ISO/IEC 10646-2:2001
39
40 These files are encoded by UTF-8.  The format of each line of the
41 files is:
42
43     <CODEPOINT><TAB><CHARACTER><TAB><IDS>
44
45 or
46
47     ;; <COMMENTS>
48
49 Each element means
50
51     <TAB>       <HORIZONTAL TABULATION> (U+0009)
52     <CODEPOINT> code point
53                 U+hhhh          Hex form of UCS code point
54                                 (U+0000 〜 U+FFFF)
55                 U-hhhhhhhh      Hex form of UCS code point
56                                 (U+00000000 〜 U+7FFFFFFF)
57     <CHARACTER> character corresponding with <CODEPOINT>
58     <IDS>       Ideographic Description Sequence
59                 (based on ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000 F.3.1; however
60                 Compatibility Ideographs and non-UCS Ideographs are
61                 also allowed)
62     <COMMENTS>  comment
63
64
65 The developing of the package was supported by the “Exploratory
66 Software Project” of Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan.
67 Some data of IDS-UCS-Basic.txt are derived and expanded from the CDP
68 database developped by C.C. Hsieh at Academia Sinica in Taipei,
69 Taiwan.
70
71 This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
72 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
73 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
74 any later version.
75
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80
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