Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!ccut!wnoc-tyo-news!dclsic!sjc!spider!leia!harkcom From: harkcom@potato.pa.Yokogawa.Co.jp (Alton Harkcom) Newsgroups: comp.fonts Subject: Re: X kanji font k14 question Message-ID: Date: 7 Nov 90 13:03:26 GMT References: <29326@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Sender: news@leia.pa.yokogawa.co.jp Organization: Yokogawa Electric Corporation, Tokyo, Japan. Lines: 30 In-reply-to: shirriff@sprite.berkeley.edu's message of 29 Oct 90 19:07:34 GMT In article <29326@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> shirriff@sprite.berkeley.edu (Ken Shirriff) writes: =}Can anyone explain the order of the kanji characters in the X font "k14" =}(JISX0208.1983 encoding)? It has several thousand kanji characters, but =}as far as I can tell, they're in a random order. The JIS coding can be broken into several sections... 0x2120 - 0x227f special characters 0x2330 - 0x237f numerals & roman characters 0x2420 - 0x247f hiragana 0x2520 - 0x257f katakana 0x2620 - 0x265f greek characters 0x2720 - 0x277f russian characters 0x2820 - 0x284f line primitives 0x3020 - 0x4f5f first level kanji (there are many gaps between them) in chinese (not japanese) reading order 0x5020 - 0x742f second level kanji (there are many gaps between them) in radical (radical as in bushu) order If you can get ahold of a book which lists Japanese Industrial Standards, it should be in it... Hope this helps. -- -- $@2#2OEE5!3t<02q