Genuine Han Uni!cation Dr. Ken Lunde | Senior Computer Scientist | Adobe Systems Incorporated © 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. IUC35, Santa Clara, CA, USA, Earth "e All-Important Disclaimer… "is presentation contains events that may happen… © 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 2 IUC35, Santa Clara, CA, USA, Earth "e All-Important Disclaimer… "is presentation contains events that may happen… …not those that necessarily will happen © 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 3 IUC35, Santa Clara, CA, USA, Earth "e All-Important Disclaimer… "is presentation contains events that may happen… …not those that necessarily will happen ☺ © 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 4 IUC35, Santa Clara, CA, USA, Earth Pop Quiz—Chinese or Japanese? © 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 5 IUC35, Santa Clara, CA, USA, Earth Pop Quiz—Chinese or Japanese? 一 © 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 6 IUC35, Santa Clara, CA, USA, Earth Pop Quiz—Chinese or Japanese? 一 Chinese & Japanese © 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 7 IUC35, Santa Clara, CA, USA, Earth Pop Quiz—Chinese or Japanese? 一 Chinese & Japanese 実 © 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 8 IUC35, Santa Clara, CA, USA, Earth Pop Quiz—Chinese or Japanese? 一 Chinese & Japanese 実 Chinese © 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 9 IUC35, Santa Clara, CA, USA, Earth Pop Quiz—Chinese or Japanese? 一 Chinese & Japanese 実 Chinese 実 Japanese © 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 10 IUC35, Santa Clara, CA, USA, Earth Pop Quiz—Chinese or Japanese? 一 Chinese & Japanese 実 Chinese 実 Japanese 骨 © 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 11 IUC35, Santa Clara, CA, USA, Earth Pop Quiz—Chinese or Japanese? 一 Chinese & Japanese 実 Chinese 実 Japanese 骨 Chinese (Traditional) & Japanese © 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 12 IUC35, Santa Clara, CA, USA, Earth Pop Quiz—Chinese or Japanese? 一 Chinese & Japanese 実 Chinese 実 Japanese 骨 Chinese (Traditional) & Japanese 骨 Chinese (Simpli!ed) © 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 13 IUC35, Santa Clara, CA, USA, Earth Pop Quiz—Chinese or Japanese? 一 Chinese & Japanese → U+4E00 実 Chinese 実 Japanese → U+5B9F 骨 Chinese (Traditional) & Japanese 骨 Chinese (Simpli!ed) → U+9AA8 © 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 14 IUC35, Santa Clara, CA, USA, Earth Background & Goals . East Asian writing systems have changed over time, through reform © 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 15 IUC35, Santa Clara, CA, USA, Earth Background & Goals . East Asian writing systems have changed over time, through reform . Reform is sometimes revolutionary © 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 16 IUC35, Santa Clara, CA, USA, Earth Background & Goals . East Asian writing systems have changed over time, through reform . Reform is sometimes revolutionary—the hànzì simpli!cation of the 1950s © 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 17 IUC35, Santa Clara, CA, USA, Earth Background & Goals . East Asian writing systems have changed over time, through reform . Reform is sometimes revolutionary—the hànzì simpli!cation of the 1950s—頭 → 头 © 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 18 IUC35, Santa Clara, CA, USA, Earth Background & Goals . East Asian writing systems have changed over time, through reform . Reform is sometimes revolutionary—the hànzì simpli!cation of the 1950s—頭 → 头 . Character form (glyph) preferences change over time © 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 19 IUC35, Santa Clara, CA, USA, Earth Background & Goals . East Asian writing systems have changed over time, through reform . Reform is sometimes revolutionary—the hànzì simpli!cation of the 1950s—頭 → 头 . Character form (glyph) preferences change over time . What was once deemed unacceptable is now the norm © 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 20 IUC35, Santa Clara, CA, USA, Earth Background & Goals . East Asian writing systems have changed over time, through reform . Reform is sometimes revolutionary—the hànzì simpli!cation of the 1950s—頭 → 头 . Character form (glyph) preferences change over time . What was once deemed unacceptable is now the norm . Today’s East Asian fonts fall into two categories © 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 21 IUC35, Santa Clara, CA, USA, Earth Background & Goals . East Asian writing systems have changed over time, through reform . Reform is sometimes revolutionary—the hànzì simpli!cation of the 1950s—頭 → 头 . Character form (glyph) preferences change over time . What was once deemed unacceptable is now the norm . Today’s East Asian fonts fall into two categories . Single-region fonts with a single glyph per CJK Uni!ed Ideograph © 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 22 IUC35, Santa Clara, CA, USA, Earth Background & Goals . East Asian writing systems have changed over time, through reform . Reform is sometimes revolutionary—the hànzì simpli!cation of the 1950s—頭 → 头 . Character form (glyph) preferences change over time . What was once deemed unacceptable is now the norm . Today’s East Asian fonts fall into two categories . Single-region fonts with a single glyph per CJK Uni!ed Ideograph . Multiple-region (aka, Pan-CJK) fonts with multiple glyphs per CJK Uni!ed Ideograph © 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 23 IUC35, Santa Clara, CA, USA, Earth Background & Goals . East Asian writing systems have changed over time, through reform . Reform is sometimes revolutionary—the hànzì simpli!cation of the 1950s—頭 → 头 . Character form (glyph) preferences change over time . What was once deemed unacceptable is now the norm . Today’s East Asian fonts fall into two categories . Single-region fonts with a single glyph per CJK Uni!ed Ideograph . Multiple-region (aka, Pan-CJK) fonts with multiple glyphs per CJK Uni!ed Ideograph . Requires a lot of time and effort, and can lead to extrapolation © 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 24 IUC35, Santa Clara, CA, USA, Earth Background & Goals . East Asian writing systems have changed over time, through reform . Reform is sometimes revolutionary—the hànzì simpli!cation of the 1950s—頭 → 头 . Character form (glyph) preferences change over time . What was once deemed unacceptable is now the norm . Today’s East Asian fonts fall into two categories . Single-region fonts with a single glyph per CJK Uni!ed Ideograph . Multiple-region (aka, Pan-CJK) fonts with multiple glyphs per CJK Uni!ed Ideograph . Requires a lot of time and effort, and can lead to extrapolation . Some are useful only for a single region, but may need to be rendered for other regions © 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 25 IUC35, Santa Clara, CA, USA, Earth Background & Goals . East Asian writing systems have changed over time, through reform . Reform is sometimes revolutionary—the hànzì simpli!cation of the 1950s—頭 → 头 . Character form (glyph) preferences change over time . What was once deemed unacceptable is now the norm . Today’s East Asian fonts fall into two categories . Single-region fonts with a single glyph per CJK Uni!ed Ideograph . Multiple-region (aka, Pan-CJK) fonts with multiple glyphs per CJK Uni!ed Ideograph . Requires a lot of time and effort, and can lead to extrapolation . Some are useful only for a single region, but may need to be rendered for other regions . East Asian writing systems will change in the future © 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 26 IUC35, Santa Clara, CA, USA, Earth Background & Goals . East Asian writing systems have changed over time, through reform . Reform is sometimes revolutionary—the hànzì simpli!cation of the 1950s—頭 → 头 . Character form (glyph) preferences change over time . What was once deemed unacceptable is now the norm . Today’s East Asian fonts fall into two categories . Single-region fonts with a single glyph per CJK Uni!ed Ideograph . Multiple-region (aka, Pan-CJK) fonts with multiple glyphs per CJK Uni!ed Ideograph . Requires a lot of time and effort, and can lead to extrapolation . Some are useful only for a single region, but may need to be rendered for other regions . East Asian writing systems will change in the future . Can Unicode act as a catalyst for a single-glyph model that serves all regions? © 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 27 IUC35, Santa Clara, CA, USA, Earth Background & Goals . East Asian writing systems have changed over time, through reform . Reform is sometimes revolutionary—the hànzì simpli!cation of the 1950s—頭 → 头 . Character form (glyph) preferences change over time . What was once deemed unacceptable is now the norm . Today’s East Asian fonts fall into two categories . Single-region fonts with a single glyph per CJK Uni!ed Ideograph . Multiple-region (aka, Pan-CJK) fonts with multiple glyphs per CJK Uni!ed Ideograph . Requires a lot of time and effort, and can lead to extrapolation . Some are useful only for a single region, but may need to be rendered for other regions . East Asian writing systems will change in the future . Can Unicode act as a catalyst for a single-glyph model that serves all regions? . Will greater cross-cultural communication play a role? © 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 28 IUC35, Santa Clara, CA, USA, Earth What Is “Han Uni!cation”? What Is Being Uni!ed? . “Uni!cation” of the most important East Asian (“Han”) character set standards © 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 29 IUC35, Santa Clara, CA, USA, Earth What Is “Han Uni!cation”? What Is Being Uni!ed? . “Uni!cation” of the most important East Asian (“Han”) character set standards . Hànzì (Chinese), kanji (Japanese), and hanja (Korean) © 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 30 IUC35, Santa Clara, CA, USA, Earth What Is “Han Uni!cation”? What Is Being Uni!ed? . “Uni!cation” of the most important East Asian (“Han”) character set standards . Hànzì (Chinese), kanji (Japanese), and hanja (Korean) . "e end result is a single repertoire © 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated.