Font technologyUnicode CJK
Unicode is a system standardized by the International Standardisation Organization (ISO) for coding of text characters (like letters, syllable characters, ideograms etc.). Unicode is the attempt to summarize world-wide all well-known text characters in one character set.
The Unicode character set is divided into several planes. Normally only the first plane, called the "Basic Multilingual Plane" (BMP), is used.
In Unicode, matching characters are united into so-called scripts:
After the Latin alphabet follow the Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew etc. up to the CJK writings. CJK is an acronym for "China, Japan and Korea". It is common to these three countries that they use all a considerable number of ideographs, which go back historically to the Chinese Han dynasty. This Han ideographes are called hanzi in China, kanji in Japan and hanja in Korea and they are summarized as CJK characters in Unicode.

Unicode 2.0/2.1
CJK Unified Ideographs covers 20,902 Chinese ideographs.
Published as ISO/IEC 10646-1:1993 = Unicode 2.0.

Unicode 3.0
Extension A of CJK Unified Ideographs includes 6,582 Chinese ideographs.
Published as ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000 = Unicode 3.0.

Unicode 3.1
Extension B of CJK Unified Ideographs covers over 42,711 Chinese ideographs.
Published as Unicode 3.1.
Extension B is located on Group 00 and Plane 02 (the plane for supplementary Chinese ideographs).
For Windows 2000, surrogates are needed to display such ideographs.

Unicode 4.0
Same as Unicode 3.1 with respect to Han unified Ideographs:
20902 CJK Unified Ideographs
6582 CJK Extension A
42711 CJK Extension B

 
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CJK Schriften

Country Vendor OS Vendor
Character Set 		Supported
Character Set 		Number of
Characters
PRC
& Singapur		 Microsoft Windows 95 Code Page 936 (Win 95)
21,900
Windows 98
and up 		Code Page 936 (Win 98)
22,000
Apple Mac OS 7.1
and up 		Mac Simplified Chinese
7,600
Taiwan &
Hongkong		 Microsoft Windows 95 Code Page 950 (Win 95)
13,600
Windows 98
and up 		Code Page 950 (Win 98)
18,300
Apple Mac OS 7.1
and up 		Mac Traditional Chinese
13,600
Japan Microsoft Windows 95 Code Page 932 (Win 95)
7,500
Windows 98
and up 		Code Page 932 (Win 98)
15,000
Apple Mac OS 7.1
and up 		Mac Japanese
7,400
Mac OS X Japanese for OS X
17,000
Korea Microsoft Windows 95 Code Page 949
(Windows 95)
KS X 1001:1992
(=KS C 5601-1992)
17,100
Windows 98
and up 		Code Page 949 (Win 98)
KS X 1001:1992
(=KS C 5601-1992)
20,600
Apple Mac OS 7.1
and up 		Mac Korean
KS C 5601-1987
9,500

CJK Scripts

Writing System Locations Used Scripts Used
Simplified Chinese People's Republic of China, Singapur Hanzi Hanzi
Traditional
Chinese		 Taiwan
Hongkong		 Hanzi Hanzi Taiwan Hongkong
Japanese Japan Hiragana Hiragana
    Katakana Katakana
    Kanji Kanji
    Romaji Romaji
Korean Korea Hangul Hangul
    Hanja Hanja

Basic CJK Fontstyles
Writing System Similar to Serif Similar to Sans Serif
Chinese
(Simplified and Traditional)		 Song Song Hei Hei
Japanese Mincho Mincho Gothic Gothic
Korean Myeongjo Myeongjo Gothic Gothic
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