Re: Mac OSX + 17,500 Kanji

From: Berthold Frommann (usagi@zedat.fu-berlin.de)
Date: Thu Apr 05 2001 - 10:20:58 EDT


> Unicode-based encodings, by themselves, only give access some of these
> glyphs. The other glyhs are mostly variants, and there are many Unicode
> values that map to multiple glyphs. Some glyphs do not have a
> corresponding Unicode character code.
Well, does anybody know how many actual *characters* are contained in these
fonts (glyph variants not counted)?
Does it support the entire JIS X 0213 set (which would imply use of plane 1
ie. surrogate pairs)?

Furthermore, which types of glyph variants are there in these fonts?

Berthold Frommann



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