[ChineseGP] terminology: traditional Chinese chars?

[KIM Kyongsok]

Dear Mr. Huang:

Thanks for your explanation.

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 7:08 PM, Kenny Huang, Ph.D. <huangksh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Prof. Kim,
>
> ISO10646 doesn't have classifier to distinguish Traditional
>  Chinese (TC) or Simplified Chinese (SC). The principle is
>  that same glyphs will be the same code point, therefore it is
>  possible that one code point could represent both TC and SC.
>
>  The basic classification technique we used is checking data
>  source from http://www.unicode.org/charts/unihan.html. As long
>  as there is a TSource in a glyphs, we consider it is Traditional Chinese.

I see.  So.. there will be about 50,000+ Traditional Chinese char, right?
That's what I want to know.

Thanks again.

Rgds,

KIM, K.



>  Such as 曾
> http://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=66FE&useutf8=true
>  which embeded TSource, therefore it is considered as TC initially. As I
> mention
>  early, it is possible that both TC/SC existed in the same code point.
>
> The method is used for preliminary stage of developing TC/SC table.
> There are many language experts working on the table from one glyphs
> to another via human validation. I can only say there is no simple algorithm
> or method to produce the result.
>
> FYI
>
> Kenny Huang
>
>
> On 30 September 2015 at 14:40, KIM Kyongsok <gimgs0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Messrs Wang and Huang:
>>
>> How are you doing?  I have a question about the term
>> " traditional chinese chars".
>>
>> 1) In ISO/IEC 10646, there are about 56000 Chinese chars.
>>
>> 2) There are 2235 simplified Chinese chars
>>   and 2261 chars corresponding to these 2235 simplified Chinese chars.
>>
>> 3) My questions are:
>>
>>   3-1) By the term "traditional Chinese chars", do you refer to
>>    just 2261 chars? Or 56000 - 2235 = 53000+ (roughly) chars?
>>
>>   3-2) I wonder what terms Chinese experts use to distinguish
>>    between  a) 2261 chars? and b) 56000 - 2235 = 53000+ chars?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> KIM, K.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> 김 경석      KIM, Kyongsok
>
>



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김 경석      KIM, Kyongsok