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Project Name: Glyph Database of the Han Character
Project Representative(s): C.C.
Hsieh
Dr. Hsieh is one of the world's leading experts on the matter of digitizing
Han characters. As long-time head of the Chinese text input project at
Academia Sinica, he has been forced
to deal with in depth with the matter of incompatible encodements and missing
characters, and in the course of this work, has developed an extensive
database of Han (CJK) characters. He is presently working, in conjunction
with Dr. Tetsuya Katsumura
of Kyoto university, on a large project aimed at the development of a system
of pan-East Asian encodement, which would, while being compatible with
Unicode, offer a systematic method for the inclusion of new characters,
based on clearly defined principles derived from the etymological history
of the characters. Dr. Hsieh introduced his project, including the development
of his glyph database. Solutions to the problem of incompatible CJK codes
and missing characters have also long been the focus of the work of Urs
App and Christian Wittern, for which they offered a provisional solution
in their ZenBase CD.
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Project Name: Unicode Issues for Input of Chinese Texts
Project Representative(s): Michael Murray, Computer Administration,
Hsi Lai University, Rosemead, California USA
Michael is working on the technical difficulties involved in existing
ways of handling complex character sets, and has been investigating the
extent to which these were handled by existing databases like those presented
by other EBTI-experts, and in the new Unicode standard.
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