[Pkg-fonts-devel] Co-maintain fonts-cns11643

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2014-12-24 16:09:07)
> Quoting Paul Wise (2014-12-24 15:11:51)
>> On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 4:07 PM, Shih-Yuan Lee (FourDollars) wrote:
>>> I am the maintainer of 
>>> https://packages.qa.debian.org/f/fonts-cns11643.html. CNS11643 is 
>>> the national encoding standard in Taiwan [1] from 
>>> http://data.gov.tw/node/5961.
>>
>> It is interesting they don't use Unicode as the standard encoding, is 
>> there a story behind that decision?
>
> An english page at the official CNS11643 site has some historic info: 
> <http://www.cns11643.gov.tw/AIDB/intro_en.do>.
>
> Seems to me that it predates (at least the the time of success for) 
> Unicode, and is maintained for legacy reasons: Above site mentions 
> that "Unicode and CNS codes can be fully cross-referenced".

Seems that only 7 of the 107154 characters in CNS11643 are not covered 
in Unicode: <http://www.cns11643.gov.tw/AIDB/statistics_en.do> (page 
requires javascript but only from same site).

 - Jonas

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