Standardization Activities for Chinese Characters in Taiwan

1
Standardization Activities for Chinese
Characters in Taiwan

• Tseng, Shih-shyeng
• Senior Analyst
• Computing Center, Academia Sinica

2
New Standard for Chinese Character Encoding

• BSMI (Bureau of Standard, Metrology and
  Inspection), the organization for standardization
  in Taiwan, published a new standard for Chinese
  character encoding in May 2002, named CNS
  14649-1. The new standard is actually the
  Chinese version of ISO/IEC 10646-12000.

3
Working Group for Chinese Character Encoding

• In order to coordinate the organizations
  dealing with the works of Chinese characters
  standardization, a working group was founded.
  The team is in charge of the collection and
  reviewing new Chinese characters, and the
  attendant of IRG.
• The members of the working group are from
  Academia Sinica, EDP Center of Directorate
  General of Budget Accounting and Statistics,
  BSMI, Mandarin Promotion Council, Chinese
  Foundation for Digitalization Technology (CMEX),
  Taipei Computer Association, Institute for
  Information Industry and IBM Taiwan.

4
Work for CJK Unified Ideograph Extension C

• ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2/IRG is now working for CJK
  Unified Ideograph Extension C.
• Taiwan submitted 10,659 new Chinese characters
  to IRG. These characters were collected form
  given names, business and company names, and
  place names.

5
The Database of CNS 11643 Chinese Characters

• The database was developed by EDP Center of
  DGBAS and CMEX. It provides fonts and attributes
  of all Chinese characters in CNS 11643, and
  software tools. The URL of the database is
  http//cns11643.gov.tw.

6
Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants

• MPC published a new electronic dictionary named
  Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants. It
  contains totally 112,799 characters. The URL of
  the dictionary is http//140.111.1.40.

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Network Query System for CJK Unified Ideographs

• CMEX had developed a new on-line Ideographic
  database, called The Network Query System for
  ISO 10646 Super CJK Unified Ideographs, which
  was sponsored by EDP Center of DGBAS. It
  contains all characters in SuperCJK and provides
  the search function for attributes. The URL of
  this system is http//202.39.225.211/seeker/index.
  jsp.

8
Character Mapping Table for Chinese Domain Names

• TWNIC (Taiwan Network Information Center) is
  working on the mapping table between traditional
  and simplified Chinese characters for Chinese
  domain names right now. The purpose of this
  project is tending to solve the problems on
  interchanging Chinese domain names between
  Mainland China and Taiwan.