README.en

   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 in the IDS-UCS* files are derived and expanded from the CDP
  68 database developped by C.C. Hsieh and his team at Academia Sinica in
  69 Taipei, 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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  77 WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  78 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
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