Subject: Re: Big5 != CNS

From: Ross Paterson <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 1994 11:12:00 BST

John Delacour <[email-masked]> writes:
> From everything I've seen in the way of tables and things I've read, CNS
> 11643-1986 contains 13,051 characters and Big5 13,053 characters, including
> all the non-Hanzi characters, so perhaps != should be replaced by !quite=
>
>       John
>
> One character that fascinates me is this one:-
>
> 0xC94A  0xFA0C  # CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA0C

There is also

0xDDFC  0xFA0D  # CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA0D

These two characters are duplicates of A461 and DCD1 respectively, and
hence were discarded when CNS levels 1 and 2 were created.