From: Julian Bradfield (jcb+unicode@inf.ed.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Sep 25 2007 - 05:49:46 CDT
In article <20070924195849.06ynl7gpw4w4484g@www.vfemail.net> vunzndi@vfemail.net writes:
>Whilst IDS are freely available, the CDL seems to be copyrighted by
>Wenlin. Actually CDL is cartesian which is not the way Chinese
>characters are formed and so though it contains one possible
>representation of a character, better is to be able to store how the
>characters are formed.
Indeed. I don't really understand why the CDL is accepted as a
proposal, since it's clearly designed for typographic purposes, not
analytical purposes - and for that reason, Wenlin protect their data.
I have a student project just starting which aims to embrace and
extend the IDS approach into something that will produce compositional
descriptions of characters, and provide a publicly available database
of such descriptions.
I'll let this list know if and when it gets some results worth playing
with;-)
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