This is the file CEF.doc of the CJK macro package ver. 4.2.0 (13-Dec-1998).
The Chinese Encoding Framework (CEF)
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Christian Wittern <cwitter@gwdg.de>, a former employee of the International
Research Institute for Zen Buddhism (IRIZ) in Kyoto (now working in
Taipeh/Taiwan), developed CEF, the Chinese Encoding Framework. It is a
method to embed CJK characters in seldom used encodings (which usually no
editor provides) in ordinary text (which may be of any encoding). This is
done by using SGML (Standardized Generalized Markup Language) macros of the
form
&xx-yyzz;
To input these characters Wittern wrote KanjiBase for Windows, essentially a
character data base search engine written in Visual Basic. See the end of
this document for availability.
`xx' in the SGML macro can have the following values:
C0 Big 5 encoded characters
C1 characters from CNS plane 1
...
C7 characters from CNS plane 7
CX characters from a reserved encoding defined by IRIZ
CY private encoding
U Unicode characters
`yy' and `zz' are the first and second byte in hexadecimal notation.
For C0-C7, CX, and CY the 7bit notation must be used (GL).
Examples:
&C0-A4CD;
&C4-275F;
&U-DCFF;
TeX can't process these macros directly. They must be converted with one of
the following preprocessors:
cefconv standard converter (also for use with cjk-enc.el)
cef5conv also converts Big 5 characters to preprocessed form
cefsconv also converts SJIS characters to preprocessed form
ceflatex.bat is a simple batch file for DOS to show how to use the
converter (cef5ltx.bat and cefsltx.bat are its siblings).
Say
ceflatex mytext[.tex]
to get mytext.tex processed. All CEF macros must be inside of a CJK (or
CJK*) environment.
To input CEF characters without preprocessing you can use the \CJKchar
macro. Here an example:
\CJKchar[CNS4]{"27}{"5F}
Note: the OS/2 script files ceflatex.cmd etc. need REXX which you probably
have to install first.
Availability
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KanjiBase for Windows has been published on CD-ROM:
Urs APP, ed., ZenBase CD1. Kyoto: International Research Institute for
Zen Buddhism (IRIZ), 1995 (ISBN 4-938796-18-X).
This CD-ROM contains a huge collection of Chinese Zen Buddhism texts
together with databases, CNS fonts and other utilities useful for East Asian
language research.
To order it send US 10$ (or 1000 Yen) in a self-addressed B5 envelope to
International Research Institute for Zen Buddhism
Hanazono University
8-1 Tsubonouchi-cho, Nishinokyo, Nakakyo-ku
Kyoto 604 Japan
Here the address in Japanese (EUC-JIS encoded):
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604 µþÅÔ»ÔÃæµþ¶èÀ¾¥ÎµþÄÛ¥ÎÆâÄ® 8¡¼1
You will get the CD-ROM together with an issue of `The Electronic
Bodhidharma' (ÅÅ»ÒãËà) which documents the CD-ROM.
The primary site for further information is Christian Wittern's home page:
http://www.gwdg.de/~cwitter
Software and actual informations can be also found on the WWW site of IRIZ:
http://www.iijnet.or.jp/iriz/irizhtml/irizhome.htm
[Note that the version of CJK distributed on this CD-ROM is severely out of
date.]
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