Saturday, October 4, 2008

Mojikyo

Mojikyo is a set of computer software and s for enhanced logogram word-processing. , it collected 126,560/142,228 characters . Among them, 101,936/128,573 characters belong to the extended CJK family . Many of the characters are obsolete and not included in Unicode.

Premise


The Mojikyo fonts were created as a method of providing a complete documentary of Chinese, Korean, and Japanese Characters. It was created in order to provide an easy method to compile large selections of Chinese Characters as well as Japanese and Korean Characters. This is in addition to a large selection as well of various ancient scripts.

Composition


Mojikyo fonts come in a series of zip files around 2-5 megabytes each and contain varying numbers of characters. Characters include the Modern Latin Alphabet, as well as a variety of various markers most seen in the Arial font, in addition to various Ancient scripts. All of this comes with a Character map that allows the user to browse through his downloaded Mojikyo fonts, copying and pasting such fonts in lieu of not having the ability to easily type them on a keyboard.

Collected writing systems


Living


* — Hanzi
* — Kanji, Kana
* — Hanja
* Latin alphabet with diacritics
* Cyrillic alphabet with diacritics

Dead or obsolete


* Ancient Chinese
** Oracle bone script: 3,354 characters
** Seal script: 10,969 characters
* Taiwanese kana
* — Ch? N?m
* — Siddham: 1,875 characters
* Tangut script: 6,000 characters
* script: 145 characters

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