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 Introduction
to the Site
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Purpose
for Building the Web site¡G
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purposes of constructing the "Master Ideographs
Seeker for CNS11643 Chinese Standard Interchange
Code" (abbreviated as Master Ideographs Seeker)
website by the "Electronic Data Processing Center
Directorate, General of Budget, Accounting and
Statistics, Executive Yuan, Republic of China"
are as follows: |
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Establish the environment for computer applications
in Taiwan. |
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Solving the shortage problem of Chinese characters
used in Personal |
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Computers(PC):
The basic Chinese ideographs (13,053 or some
20,000 glyphs) of internal codes frequently
used in PCs, such as Big-5 Unicode are often
inadequate. The Master Ideographs Seeker website
contains the mechanism for downloading characters.
Whenever characters are missing from computers,
they can be downloaded immediately from the
Internet, replacing manual creation of characters.
This not only saves the time spent by users
on character creation, but also results in better
order and presentation of fonts and typefaces. |
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Solving the interchange problem of user-created
characters: User- |
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created
characters used in documents transmitted by
computers such as e-mails, official documents
cannot be correctly displayed due to different
encodings. The "CNS11643 Chinese Standard Interchange
Code" (abbreviated as CNS Code) collects some
seventy thousand glyphs providing sufficient
set of glyphs. Using CNS codes as interchange
standard is currently the only solution to the
user-created characters interchange problem.
The Master Ideographs Seeker website contains
the " Code Conversion Tool" which provides users
with the function of inter-converting between
CNS codes and users' frequently used Chinese
codes. |
| 4. Settle
down the phenomena of "identical characters,
different codes" |
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within
government agencies, enterprises and organizations.
Users used to create or download identical characters
represented by different codes. This will in
turn cause additional and tedious work in converting
codes. The Master Ideographs Seeker website
contains the mechanism of "Sharing User-created
Characters" and can be utilized to install identical
user-created characters in PCs used within organizations
or enterprises in order to keep the principle
of "identical characters, identical codes". |
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Assist government agencies, enterprises and
organizations in the |
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unification
and management of Chinese characters set: To
keep the principle of "identical words, identical
codes", government agencies, enterprises and
organizations must dedicate staff to administer
user-created characters. The administrator is
responsible for the gathering, uniform encoding
or downloading of existing user-created characters
and new ones created subsequently. The Master
Ideographs Seeker website contains various management
tools to provide users with fast and effective
administration and management of all user-created
characters used internally. |
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Solve the display problem of user-created characters
on the web page: |
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When
user-created characters are used on web pages,
people browsing the web page are unable to see
correctly displayed characters. The Master Ideographs
Seeker website contains the mechanism of "Instantaneous
Script Display" to provide users with appropriate
fonts, colors and sizes for display on the screen. |
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| The
Construction Process¡G |
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| 1.
Project Planned: In order to resolve the problems
of information |
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interchange
and inadequacy of Chinese characters in PCs,
the plan to construct the " CNS11643 Chinese
Standard Interchange Code Master Ideographs
Server " was completed in December 1998. |
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Production of Master Ideographs Seeker, Version
1.0: Commencing from |
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January
1999, the Center has outsourced the job of producing
the "Master Ideographs Server of CNS 11643 Chinese
Standard Interchange Code" to the Chinese Foundation
for Digitization Technology. The website was
open for use on July 21 in the same year. |
| 3.
Production of Master Ideographs Seeker, Version
2.0: Master Ideographs |
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Seeker,
Version 1.0 was indeed a solution to the long
existing problems of missing characters and
code conversion and was well received by various
parties. In order to further increase the practicality
and convenience of the Ideographs Seeker, in
March 2000, functions, operation flows and interfaces
of the system were amended based on the scheduled
plan and with reference to user requests. New
functions including "Query by Pin-Yin", "Query
by glyphs", "GBK Code Conversion" and "Sharing
User-created Characters" were added and "CNS11643
Chinese Standard Interchange Code Master Ideographs
Seeker, Version 2.0" was open for use from August
in the same year. |
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Production of Master Ideographs Seeker, Version
3.0: In June 2000, with |
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the
objective of enabling government agencies, enterprises
and organizations to more efficiently manage
their internally used Chinese characters set,
the "Self-used Characters Management Tool" for
individual use and the "User-created Characters
Administration Tool" for administrator use were
developed. To avoid the mixed use of Formal
script and Ming fonts having an adverse impact
on the overall writing presentation, Formal-Script
fonts were created for the CNS character planes
3 and 4. To solve the display problem of user-created
characters, the mechanism of "Immediate Font
Display" was created. In addition, to ease the
traffic over the Internet, the "Master Ideographs
Seeker Copying" mechanism was created for organizations
that use the website more frequently to install
the Master Ideographs Seeker on their Intranet.
Subsequently to all these developments, "CNS11643
Chinese Standard Interchange Change Code Master
Ideograph Seeker, Version 3" was open for use
from March 2001. |
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Construction of Master Ideographs Seeker, Version
4.0: From June 2001, |
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other
than continuing with the production of Formal-Script
fonts for the CNS character plane 5, system
functions were expanded to allow for application
of Master Ideographs Seeker in the WINDOWS 2000
and WINDOWS Me system environments. On the other
hand, Chinese characters in expanded Unicode,
Version 3.0 and symbols and fonts of Japanese,
Taiwanese dialect pronunciation, Euro, the Chinese
character of zero were constructed for users
to download to ensure that Unicode and CNS codes
can be fully cross-referenced. "Master Ideographs
Seeker, for CNS11643 Chinese Standard Interchange
Code Version 4.0" was open for use from January
2002. |
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| Intended
Users¡G |
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1. Administrator for user-created characters
and computer users in ¡@government agencies,
enterprises and organizations. |
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Stand alone PC users outside of government agencies,
enterprises and ¡@organizations. |
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Master Ideographs Seeker Server Administrator. |
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Web page documents designer. |
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| Applicable
Operating Environments¡G |
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Windows 95¢¬98 |
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Windows ME |
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Windows NT [required to log in as (system administrator)
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Windows 2000 [required to log in as (system
administrator) ] |
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| System
Functions¡G |
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| 1. Chinese
Code Query: Master Ideographs Seeker, Version
4.0 currently |
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allows
queries for up to a total of 76,067 Chinese
characters and 894 symbols. The 76,067 Chinese
characters are included in CNS character planes
from1 to 7 inclusive (48,027 characters) and
in user-created character planes from 12 to
15 inclusive; queries on phonetics, radicals,
strokes, CNS codes and Chinese codes such as
Big-5 (including Big-5E) and Unicode can be
queried over the Internet by total stroke count,
phonetic alphabets, Tsang-Chi codes, Pin-Yin
and the composite method. The 894 glyphs include
existing glyphs (684 glyphs) in the CNS character
planes and newly constructed Taiwanese dialect
pronunciation, Japanese phonetic symbols of
Hiragana or Katakana, Euro, the Chinese character
of zero etc totaling 210 symbols; they can be
queried over the Internet by glyph types, CNS
codes and Chinese codes such as Big-5 (including
Big-5E) and Unicode. |
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Font downloads and construction of cross-reference
table for CNS codes |
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and
user-created Big-5 characters: In addition to
providing the downloads for 48,072 Chinese characters
in the CNS character planes 1 through to 7,
684 glyphs and 40 x 40 Ming bitmap fonts of
the 6,831 Chinese characters in CNS character
plane 15, Formal script vector fonts of the
13,446 Chinese characters in the CNS character
planes 3 through to 4, Version 4 of the Master
Ideographs Seeker has additional 210 symbols
in the CNS character plane 1, which include
Japanese, Taiwanese dialect pronunciation, Euro
and the Chinese character of "zero" and 3,209
GBK Simplified Chinese characters in user-created
plane 14 (4B6D to 6D79). Font types, phonetics
and Tsang-Chi related information of Chinese
characters can be downloaded after running queries
by total stroke count, phonetic alphabets, Tsang-Chi
codes, phonetic spelling and the composite method.
Fonts of symbolic characters can be downloaded
after running queries by types of symbol. |
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Chinese Code Conversion: Fonts, phonetics and
Tsang-Chi related |
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information
downloaded from the Master Ideographs Seeker
not only can be installed in the character-creation
areas of the computer, but the cross-reference
table for Big-5 user-created characters and
the CNS codes will also be automatically constructed
at the same time. The code conversion tool provided
by the Master Ideographs Seeker is then utilized
to undergo inter-conversion between CNS codes
and internal codes frequently used in text files
including Big-5, EUC, Unicode and GBK (Complex
Chinese) to achieve accurate information interchange. |
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Installation of Sharing (identical) User-created
Ideographs: The |
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mechanism
to share user-created characters is provided
from Version 2.0 of the Master Ideographs Seeker
for organizations, enterprises or associations
to install identical user-created ideographs
in all their internal PCs. This will ensure
that the principle of "identical characters,
identical codes" is maintained thus reducing
the number of times required to convert codes
(stand alone users outside of organizations,
enterprises and associations can also use this
mechanism to install identical Chinese ideographs
similar to those used by others). |
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Administration and management of user-created
ideographs by |
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government
agencies, enterprises and organizations: Administration
tools for user-created characters are provided
from Version 3.0 of the Master Ideographs Seeker
which enable administrators for user-created
characters to smoothly consolidate all existing
user-created characters stored in individual
PCs and to effectively manage new user-created
characters. |
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Display of user-created characters on the web
page: The mechanism for |
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font
display will be provided from Version 3 of the
Master Ideographs Seeker thus eliminating the
need to download or install fonts for user-created
characters used on the web page. The converted
image files of user-created characters' fonts
can be read instantly in the Master Ideographs
Seeker and characters can then be displayed
on users' computers in accordance with fonts,
colors and sizes required by the designer. |
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Copying Master Ideographs Seeker onto the Intranet:
In order to ease the |
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website's
traffic, the copying mechanism of the Master
Ideographs Seeker will be provided from Version
3.0. This mechanism will enable the installation
of the Master Ideographs Seeker onto the Intranet
of larger governmental organizations or those
who frequently use the website. All application
tools and mechanisms of the Master Ideographs
Seeker can be utilized internally instead of
via the Internet. |
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Installing Big-5E Ideographs: Version 4 of the
Master Character Code |
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contains
newly added installation tools for Big-5E which
can be used to convert existing 24 x 24 Ming
bitmap fonts to 40 x 40 fonts. It also has the
function of providing Formal script vector fonts.
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Copyright
Declaration
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copyright for this database and all tools remains
the property of the Electronic Data Processing
Center Directorate, General of Budget, Accounting
and Statistics, Executive Yuan, Republic of
China and the Chinese Foundation for Digitization
Technology. The copyright of standard formal
script fonts published by the Ministry of Education
(MOE) remains the property of the MOE; all users
are welcome but the contents should not be reproduced
or sold-on. |
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Project
Participating Members and Organizations
Participants
of the project working team:
Chief Organizer
| Electronic
Data Processing Center Directorate, General
of Budget, Accounting and Statistics, Executive
Yuan |
| Web
Address: www.dgbas.gov.tw |
| Email¡Gedp@dgbas.gov.tw |
| Director:
Jian-O Wan |
| Deputy
Director: Cern-Tung Liu |
| Deputy
Director: Cern-Tung Liu |
| Analyst:
Mary Ma |
| Administrator:
Bau-Luen Yu, Jau-Ts Mau |
| Designer:
Shin-Yi Wu |
| Assistant
Designer: Yu-Fang Chen |
| Web
Address: www.cns11643.gov.tw |
| E-mail¡Gcnscode@dgbas.gov.tw |
| Telephone¡G(02)2361-0657¡B2382-3739¡B2382-3749¡B2382-3796¡B2382-3740¡B2382-3742¡B2382-3751 |
| Fax¡G(02)2382-6621¡B2383-2580
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| Chinese
Character Project Research- participating
personnel from Electronic Data Processing
Center Directorate, General of Budget, Accounting
and Statistics, Executive Yuan in the past
years: |
1. Research and development of "Chinese Reports
Output System", "On-line Chinese Character
Information Management System" and "On-line
Chinese Fonts Inquiry System" : |
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Dr.
His-Kuo Chang, Dr. S-Ming Ju, Consultant Fu-Chung
Na, Hsueh-Hsiung Feng, Cern-Tung Liu, Chian-Chung
Feng, Yuen-Lueng Hsiao, Huei-Mien Chen, Bau-Tse
Jen, J-Ming Fan, Shih-Hsiung Yang, Shih-Ming
Hsieh, Jung-Lieh Liu, Hai-Ping Chang, Yu-Fang
Chen |
2. Research and development of facilities
for Chinese Language output (self-constructed
"Medium-sized Chinese Character Keyboard"):
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Dr.
S-Ming Ju, Yuen-Lueng Hsiao, Huei-Mien Chen,
Bau-Tse Jen, J-Ming Fan. |
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Research and development of " First Generation
Chinese Language Terminal", "Microprocessor
Chinese Language Terminal System" and "On-line
Chinese Language Processing System" : |
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Juan-Mei
Tsai, Shih-Hsiung Yang, San-Shieng Hsieh,
Te-Wang Jen. |
4. Defining Chinese Character Interchange
Code |
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(1)
First Draft of "Standard Chinese Code for
Information Interchange": Dr. Jien-Tu Wang,
Shu-Jen Ju, Jau-Rueng Liao, Chau-Jien Ma,
Yu-Fang Chen |
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(2)
"Standard interchange code for commonly-used
Han characters": Shu-Jen Ju, Hsien-Cheng Tzeng,
Pei-Chian Lin, Jau-Rueng Liao, Chau-Jien Ma,
Yu-Fang Chen |
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(3)
Expansion of Big-5 Code (Big5+): Ruei-Yuan
Pei, Yu-Fang Chen |
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Construction of the website for Master Ideographs
Seeker: Cheng-Yu Pan, Mary Ma, Hsin-Yi Wu,
Yu-Fang Chen |
Project
Contractor
| The
Chinese Foundation for Digitization Technology |
| Web
address¡Gwww.cmex.org.tw |
| Email¡Gcmex@cmex.org.tw |
| TEL¡G(02)2577-8779 |
| FAX¡G(02)2578-8825 |
| Chair:
Jia-Shuen Lin |
| General
Secretary: Lin-Mei Wei |
| Consultant:
In-Jian Win |
| System
Analyst: Yu-Ming Chang |
| Engineer:
Bieng-Han Tang, Hong-Shiau Ju |
| Web
page Designer: Cheng-You Wu |
| Customer
Service: Jing-Yi Tsao, Li-Ke Huang |
| Secretary:
Shaw-Ping Wang |
Sponsors
| Bureau
of Standards, Metrology and Inspection, Ministry
of Economic Affairs, Executive Yuan, Republic
of China. |
| Mandarin
Promotion Council, Ministry of Education, Executive
Yuan, Republic of China |
| Institute
for Information Industry |
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