The Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set and Migration to ISO 10646
Qin Lu - Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
| Intended Audience: |
Manager, Software Engineer, Systems Analyst, People who Support East Asian Scripts |
| Session Level: |
Intermediate |
This talk will first give an overview of the new Hong Kong Supplementary
Character published by the Hong Kong SAR government in September, 1999.
HKSCS is the extension to the Government Common Character Set(GCCS) developed
in 1995. The release of GCCS marked the first step in coordinating the use of
user-defined Chinese characters within the Government and was well received by
the public as a supplement to the standard character set of Big-5. This
supplementary character set has recently been enhanced by the Government in
collaboration with the newly established Chinese Language Interface
Advisory Committee (CLIAC), which comprises representatives from academic institutions,
language and linguistics associations and the IT and publishing industries. To
facilitate the adoption of ISO 10646 and migration to ISO 10646 enabled
platforms, HKSCS provides two code allocation schemes, one for Big-5 and the other for UCS2.
It will also present a summary of HKSAR's strategy, new setups for standardization, and
other initiatives on migration to ISO 10646.
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