modify some IDSs.
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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.
9
10 If XEmacs CHISE is installed in your system, please type
11
12     % make install
13
14 in the directory of the CHISE-IDS distribution.
15
16
17 * IDS files
18
19 The following files contains the data about structures of Han
20 Ideographs (漢字).
21     
22     IDS-UCS-Basic.txt   CJK Unified Ideographs (U+4E00 〜 U+9FA5)
23                         of ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000
24     IDS-UCS-Ext-A.txt   CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A
25                         (U+3400 〜 U+4DB5, U+FA1F and U+FA23)
26                         of ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000
27     IDS-UCS-Compat.txt  CJK Compatibility Ideographs
28                         (U+F900 〜 U+FA2D, except U+FA1F and U+FA23)
29                         of ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000
30     IDS-UCS-Ext-B-1.txt CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B [part 1]
31                         (U-00020000 〜 U-00021FFF)
32                         of ISO/IEC 10646-2:2001
33     IDS-UCS-Ext-B-2.txt CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B [part 2]
34                         (U-00022000 〜 U-00023FFF)
35                         of ISO/IEC 10646-2:2001
36     IDS-UCS-Ext-B-3.txt CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B [part 3]
37                         (U-00024000 〜 U-00025FFF)
38                         of ISO/IEC 10646-2:2001
39     IDS-UCS-Ext-B-4.txt CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B [part 4]
40                         (U-00026000 〜 U-00027FFF)
41                         of ISO/IEC 10646-2:2001
42     IDS-UCS-Ext-B-5.txt CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B [part 5]
43                         (U-00028000 〜 U-00029FFF)
44                         of ISO/IEC 10646-2:2001
45     IDS-UCS-Ext-B-6.txt CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B [part 6]
46                         (U-0002A000 〜 U-0002A6D6)
47                         of ISO/IEC 10646-2:2001
48     IDS-UCS-Compat-Supplement.txt
49                         CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement
50                         (U-0002F800 〜 U-0002FA1D)
51                         of ISO/IEC 10646-2:2001
52
53 These files are encoded by UTF-8.  The format of each line of the
54 files is:
55
56     <CODEPOINT><TAB><CHARACTER><TAB><IDS>
57
58 or
59
60     ;; <COMMENTS>
61
62 Each element means
63
64     <TAB>       <HORIZONTAL TABULATION> (U+0009)
65     <CODEPOINT> code point
66                 U+hhhh          Hex form of UCS code point
67                                 (U+0000 〜 U+FFFF)
68                 U-hhhhhhhh      Hex form of UCS code point
69                                 (U+00000000 〜 U+7FFFFFFF)
70     <CHARACTER> character corresponding with <CODEPOINT>
71     <IDS>       Ideographic Description Sequence
72                 (based on ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000 F.3.1; however
73                 Compatibility Ideographs and non-UCS Ideographs are
74                 also allowed)
75     <COMMENTS>  comment
76
77
78 * License
79
80 This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
81 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
82 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
83 any later version.
84
85 This package is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
86 WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
87 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
88 General Public License for more details.
89
90 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
91 along with this package; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
92 the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
93 Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
94
95
96 * Acknowledgment
97
98 The developing of the package was supported by the “Exploratory
99 Software Project” of Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan.
100 Some data in the IDS-UCS* files are derived and expanded from the CDP
101 database developped by C.C. Hsieh and his team at Academia Sinica in
102 Taipei, Taiwan.