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Encodings, Fonts, and Input Systems
(2,615 words)
1. Introduction Processing of Chinese characters in information technology systems can be separated into encoding (internal representation of a character), display of a character using so-called fonts, and input of characters. In the following, I will give a brief overview of the history and current state of Chinese character encoding, followed by a discussion of fonts and finally of methods for input of Chinese characters. 2. Chinese Character Encodings Encoding of characters in East Asia started in the 1970s, with the main activity in Japan, Táiwān and China. T…
Date:
2017-03-02
