about China Font Bank

from
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/25/opinion/chinas-digital-soft-power-play.html?_r=0

This month, the Chinese government plans to introduce codes for some 3,000
Chinese characters as part of a grand project, known as the China Font
Bank, to digitize 500,000 characters previously unavailable in electronic
form.

The project highlights 100,000 characters from the country’s 56 ethnic
minorities, and another 100,000 rare and ancient characters from China’s
written corpus. Deploying almost 30 companies, institutions and
universities, it’s the largest state-funded digitization project ever
undertaken.
Received on Thu Oct 27 2016 - 06:49:36 CDT