Re: Chinese

[Tobias Burnus <burnus@net-b.de>]

Hi,

Hans Hagen wrote:
> chinese is not yet defined in utf so if you want that, we need to do it
We probably should.

> question: do the unicode tables cover gbk and big 5 well?
There exists a one-to-one correspondence between GBK and Unicode [1], 
for Big5 there are 7 characters which cannot be mapped one-to-one (see 
comment at top of [2]); thee of which appear twice in Big5 but only once 
in Unicode, two are not in unicode and there are two mapping problems.
In practive one can thus say: Both GBK and Big5 can be mapped to Unicode.

> assuming this, how about making a set of tfm,enc,map files that match 
> the unicode positions (volunteers ...)
If I get the time, I will play around with the four fonts mentioned on 
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Chinese
Adam mentioned 
http://www.physik.fu-berlin.de/~tburnus/linlibertine/LibertineUnicode.zip, 
which contains LibertineInConTeXt.txt, which describes a possible way to 
do so.
But I wouldn't mind if someone who has more experience in playing around 
with .enc files would do the job ;)

Tobias