Re: [unicode] Unihan database: kCangjie field

From: mpsuzuki@hiroshima-u.ac.jp
Date: Sun Jun 14 2009 - 00:30:59 CDT

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    Hi,

    Checking the kCangjie entry for U+9762 ($BLL(B) in Unihan.txt,
    we can find this line:

            U+9762 kCangjie MWYL

    I guess, this is Cangjie version 3 style.
    If it's version 5 style, it should be MWSL.

            http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%80%89%E9%A0%A1%E8%BC%B8%E5%85%A5%E6%B3%95

    According to UTR#38, kCangjie field is based on Christian
    Wittern's cangjie-table.b5.

    >Tag: kCangjie
    >Status: Provisional
    >Category: Dictionary-like Data
    >Separator: space
    >Syntax: [A-Z]+
    >Description: The cangjie input code for the character.
    > This incorporates data from the file cangjie-table.b5
    > by Christian Wittern.

    According to Christian Wittern's web site at Kyoto Univ.,
    it seems that he has not updated cangjie-table.b5 since
    1993-Nov.

    http://kanji.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~wittern/publications/data/index.html
    >Cangjie Table: Table of all cangjie input keys,
    > with radical / stroke and BIG5 code ,
    > in: ftp://ifcss.org/software/data, November 1993.

    I think the popular version of cangjie-table.b5 used in
    various free softwares is 1.02 released on 1993-May.
            e.g.
            http://linenum.info/p/emacs/22.1/leim/MISC-DIC/cangjie-table.b5?page=1
            http://linenum.info/p/emacs/22.1/leim/MISC-DIC/cangjie-table.b5?page=27
    It includes 13059 entries to cover Big5 with ETen extension.

    On the other hand, Unihan.txt 5.1.0 (2008-Mar-03) includes
    29148 entries. I don't know who added extra kCangjie to
    cover the characters which are not included in original
    cangjie-table.b5 by Christian.

    Regards,
    mpsuzuki

    On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 19:14:49 +0200
    Charlie Ruland <ruland@luckymail.com> wrote:

    >The Cangjie input code of which Cangjie version is given in the Unihan
    >database?
    >I couldn't find any explicit information on this in the Unicode Standard
    >Annex #38: Unicode Han Database (Unihan) at
    >http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr38/ .
    >FYI, I use a Cangjie version 5 IME ($BBh8^BeARpvM"F~K!(B) designed by and
    >downloaded from Malaysia$B!G(Bs Friends of Cangjie ($BARpvG7M'!#GOPT@>P3(B at
    >http://www.chinesecj.com/newsoftware/index3.php?Type=1 ) and which
    >promises to support input of some 70,000 characters.
    >Are all Unihan kCangjie codes usable on my IME?
    >
    >Charlie
    >
    >--
    >___ Charlie Ruland ___ $BQG=q7E(B ___
    >ERROR__COMMVNIS__FACIT__IVS
    >
    >

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