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1 ;; -*- coding: utf-8-jis-er -*-
2 This directory holds the CHISE-IDS package which contains data and
3 utilities about structures of Han Ideographs (漢字).
4
5
6 * How to install
7
8 Please install XEmacs CHISE before install this package.
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10 If XEmacs CHISE is installed in your system, please type
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12     % make install
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14 in the directory of the CHISE-IDS distribution.
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16
17 [Note] If you don't have XEmacs CHISE, the CHISE-base package may be
18 useful.  It is an installer package to install CHISE functionalities
19 including libchise, XEmacs CHISE, the CHISE-IDS package, some other
20 Emacs Lisp utilities, some fonts, etc.  It is available at:
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22         http://www.chise.org/dist/base/
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24 In addition, if you use Mac OS X with Fink,
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26 http://corpus.kanji.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=corpus/env.git;a=blob_plain;f=install-base-system_mac-fink.sh;hb=HEAD
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28 is available and easier than plain CHISE-base package.
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30
31 * IDS files
32
33 The following files contains the data about structures of Han
34 Ideographs (漢字).
35     
36     IDS-UCS-Basic.txt   CJK Unified Ideographs (U+4E00 〜 U+9FA5)
37                         of ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000
38     IDS-UCS-Ext-A.txt   CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A
39                         (U+3400 〜 U+4DB5, U+FA1F and U+FA23)
40                         of ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000
41     IDS-UCS-Compat.txt  CJK Compatibility Ideographs
42                         (U+F900 〜 U+FA2D, except U+FA1F and U+FA23)
43                         of ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000
44     IDS-UCS-Ext-B-1.txt CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B [part 1]
45                         (U-00020000 〜 U-00021FFF)
46                         of ISO/IEC 10646-2:2001
47     IDS-UCS-Ext-B-2.txt CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B [part 2]
48                         (U-00022000 〜 U-00023FFF)
49                         of ISO/IEC 10646-2:2001
50     IDS-UCS-Ext-B-3.txt CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B [part 3]
51                         (U-00024000 〜 U-00025FFF)
52                         of ISO/IEC 10646-2:2001
53     IDS-UCS-Ext-B-4.txt CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B [part 4]
54                         (U-00026000 〜 U-00027FFF)
55                         of ISO/IEC 10646-2:2001
56     IDS-UCS-Ext-B-5.txt CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B [part 5]
57                         (U-00028000 〜 U-00029FFF)
58                         of ISO/IEC 10646-2:2001
59     IDS-UCS-Ext-B-6.txt CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B [part 6]
60                         (U-0002A000 〜 U-0002A6D6)
61                         of ISO/IEC 10646-2:2001
62     IDS-UCS-Compat-Supplement.txt
63                         CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement
64                         (U-0002F800 〜 U-0002FA1D)
65                         of ISO/IEC 10646-2:2001
66
67 These files are encoded by UTF-8.  The format of each line of the
68 files is:
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70     <CODEPOINT><TAB><CHARACTER><TAB><IDS>
71
72 or
73
74     ;; <COMMENTS>
75
76 Each element means
77
78     <TAB>       <HORIZONTAL TABULATION> (U+0009)
79     <CODEPOINT> code point
80                 U+hhhh          Hex form of UCS code point
81                                 (U+0000 〜 U+FFFF)
82                 U-hhhhhhhh      Hex form of UCS code point
83                                 (U+00000000 〜 U+7FFFFFFF)
84     <CHARACTER> character corresponding with <CODEPOINT>
85     <IDS>       Ideographic Description Sequence
86                 (based on ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000 F.3.1; however
87                 Compatibility Ideographs and non-UCS Ideographs are
88                 also allowed)
89     <COMMENTS>  comment
90
91
92 * License
93
94 This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
95 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
96 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
97 any later version.
98
99 This package is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
100 WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
101 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
102 General Public License for more details.
103
104 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
105 along with this package; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
106 the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
107 Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
108
109
110 * Acknowledgment
111
112 The developing of the package was supported by the “Exploratory
113 Software Project” of Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan.
114 Some data in the IDS-UCS* files are derived and expanded from the CDP
115 database developped by C.C. Hsieh and his team at Academia Sinica in
116 Taipei, Taiwan.