From: mpsuzuki@hiroshima-u.ac.jp
Date: Thu Oct 25 2007 - 20:27:35 CDT
Hi,
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 08:10:11 -0700
Peter Constable <petercon@microsoft.com> wrote:
>From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On Behalf Of vunzndi@vfemail.net
>
>> You certianly support for plane 2 characters, some really obsurce
>> Chinese characters are in the BMP, but some very useful ones are in
>> plane 2.
>
>I wonder if you could elaborate. We hear that CJK users typically
>use well under 10K characters, and for years there have been
>implementations using character sets that didn't include any of
>the Plane 2 characters and that, evidently, were adequate for
>lots of usage. So, it's not obvious that Plane 2 characters
>would be needed in all application scenarios.
Taking a glance on CJK TrueType fonts bundled to Microsoft
Windows Vista, the number of Plane 2 ideographs show remarkable
difference between the fonts for PRC/Taiwan and for Japan.
SIMSUN (for PRC) and MINGLIU (for Taiwan) have over 30000
glyphs and supplemental font files inlcuding Plane 2 only,
but the number of glyph in MSMINCHO (for Japan, including
Plane 2 characters) is about 19000. Yet I've not checked the
fonts for Korean.
I guess the large number of characters in fonts for PRC is
important to be GB18030-savvy, but I'm not sure if there's
any legal pressure to increase the number of character in
the fonts for Taiwanese market. If anybody know, please let
me know
Regards,
mpsuzuki
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