Unihan font
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Unihan font was developed by Ross Paterson in 1993.
Unihan font had two variations, 16x16 and 24x24 pixel fonts. These covered most of the
CJK
Auxiliary and UniHan
portions of Unicode
. Font files were in HBF (and bin) format (BDF
). The bitmaps in bin files were derived from GB 2312
, Big5
, JIS X 0208
, KSC 5601 and CCCII
fonts.
Unihan font had two variations, 16x16 and 24x24 pixel fonts. These covered most of the
CJK
CJK
CJK is a collective term for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, which is used in the field of software and communications internationalization.The term CJKV means CJK plus Vietnamese, which constitute the main East Asian languages.- Characteristics :...
Auxiliary and UniHan
Han unification
Han unification is an effort by the authors of Unicode and the Universal Character Set to map multiple character sets of the so-called CJK languages into a single set of unified characters. Han characters are a common feature of written Chinese , Japanese , Korean , and—at least historically—other...
portions of Unicode
Unicode
Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems...
. Font files were in HBF (and bin) format (BDF
Glyph Bitmap Distribution Format
The Glyph Bitmap Distribution Format by Adobe is a file format for storing bitmap fonts. The content is presented as a text file that is intended to be human and computer readable. BDF is typically used in Unix environments.-Overview:...
). The bitmaps in bin files were derived from GB 2312
GB 2312
GB2312 is the registered internet name for a key official character set of the People's Republic of China, used for simplified Chinese characters...
, Big5
Big5
Big-5 or Big5 is a character encoding method used in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau for Traditional Chinese characters.Mainland China, which uses Simplified Chinese Characters, uses the GB instead.- Organization :...
, JIS X 0208
JIS X 0208
JIS X 0208 is a 2-byte character set specified as a Japanese Industrial Standard, containing 6879 graphic characters suitable for writing text, place names, personal names, and so forth in the Japanese language. The official title of the current standard is...
, KSC 5601 and CCCII
Chinese Character Code for Information Interchange
Chinese Character Code for Information Interchange or CCCII is a character set developed specifically to address the problem of interchange of Chinese information...
fonts.
See also
- List of typefaces (List of fonts)
- Unicode typefacesUnicode typefacesA Unicode font is a computer font that contains a wide range of characters, letters, digits, glyphs, symbols, ideograms, logograms, etc., which are collectively mapped into the standard Universal Character Set, derived from many different languages and scripts from around the world...