Re: [icu-support] Braille, CJK and icu

[Steven R. L. <sr...@ic...>]

Samuel,
 I'm glad to hear about brltty using icu, that's some very important 
technology which I am a fan of.

 I thought I had written some code to parse unihan, but I can't find it 
right now.

 Please feel free to file a bug with how you would like to use the 
unihan data.

I had some old code that parsed/used kangxi tables on:
    http://www.icu-project.org/repos/icu/icuapps/trunk/ubrowse/ubrowse.c
     http://www.icu-project.org/repos/icu/icuapps/trunk/locexp/util/kangxi.c
   
  I don't have the generators though- they were probably just sed  
scripts on the command line at that time (1999)

-s

Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Let me first explain the context a bit: I'm working in brltty, a
> screen reading daemon.  It peeks the text of the screen as unicode
> strings, converts it to braille, and renders that on a braille device.
>
> As braille uses only 8-dot cells, there are sometimes ambiguities
> in the translation.  To solve them, there is a "descchar" command
> that lets the user get information about a precise character ; for
> now it just displays the unicode name of the character.  However, in
> the CJK compatibility planes, e.g. U+9000, we just get "CJK UNIFIED
> IDEOGRAPH-9000" which is not particularly helpful to the user.  I have
> noticed that unicode.org provides a Unihan database which includes
> information for such CJK characters, for instance for U+9000 there is
> notably an english description:
>
> U+9000	kDefinition	step back, retreat, withdraw
>
> and pronunciations in the various languages using it:
>
> U+9000	kCangjie	YAV
> U+9000	kCantonese	teoi3
> U+9000	kHanyuPinlu	tui4(254)
> U+9000	kJapaneseKun	SHIRIZOKU SHIRIZOKERU
> U+9000	kJapaneseOn	TAI TON
> U+9000	kKorean	THOY
> U+9000	kMandarin	TUI4
>
> I couldn't find this kind of information in icu, is it there, else could
> it be considered to add it?
>
> And actually, for chinese people who do not know english, is there
> a source of information that provides more details in chinese?
> (pronunciation only is not enough since many words have exactly the same
> pronunciation). Same question for other languages using CJK of course...
>
> Samuel
>
>