Re: Erratum in Unicode book

From: Richard Cook (rscook@socrates.berkeley.edu)
Date: Mon Jul 09 2001 - 14:42:34 EDT


"Michael (michka) Kaplan" wrote:
>
> From: "John H. Jenkins" <jenkins@apple.com>
>
> > >Has the UNIHAN.TXT file been updated to include radical-stroke data
> > >for Plane Two characters?
>
> > Yes. Ever since Unicode 3.1 was released. (We still don't have an
> > Extension B font, however.)
>
> There is one in Office XP's CHS and CHP language packs (along with an IME).
> The name of the font is "Simsun (Founder Extended)" and the parentheses in
> the names are causing no end to problems in many tools! <g>).
>
> I am working on test pages that will show all the characters, using WEFT
> created .EOT files for those who are using Internet Explorer as their
> browser (I am actually helping the WEFT folks with some bugs that these
> pages exposed!).
>
This must be the Beijing Zhong Yi Electronics font ... I heard that
Microsoft was licensing it, but didn't imagine they'd release it so soon ...

Can anyone here speak of whether Apple will be licensing it?

Funny that Microsoft has it before Unicode, no? They have deeper
pockets, and that matters?



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