Introduction of traditional Chinese characters:
Traditional Chinese characters, a font form of Chinese characters, are called traditional Chinese characters in Europe and America. Generally speaking, it refers to the Chinese characters replaced by simplified characters in the Chinese character simplification movement, and sometimes it refers to the whole Chinese character regular script and official script writing system before the Chinese character simplification movement. Traditional Chinese has a history of more than two thousand years. Until 1956, it was the standard Chinese character used by Chinese people all over the world.
A total of 2274 simplified words and 14 simplified word radicals, such as Yi [Yi], Xun [Qi], Yi [Yi], Cheng [Cheng], etc., have been collected in the Summary of Simplified Words, and the sources of simplified words include commonly used words.
Traditional Chinese characters are still used in Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and most overseas Chinese communities such as Singapore and Malaysia are traditional Chinese characters and simplified Chinese characters. In Chinese mainland, in the case of cultural relics, variant surnames, calligraphy seal cutting, handwritten inscriptions and special needs, traditional Chinese characters are retained or used.
200 1 1 The implementation of the Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) on Common Languages and Characters clearly stipulates the promotion of standardized Chinese characters in China, and also clarifies the scope of traditional Chinese characters. On June 5th, 20 13, the schedule of Chinese Characters for General Norms, Comparison Table of Standardized Characters, Traditional Characters and Variant Characters was published. The use of Chinese characters in general application field shall be subject to the Standard Chinese Character List.
Traditional Chinese character encoding:
Starting from 1980, traditional Chinese usually uses Big5 Chinese coding. Chinese mainland uses the simplified Chinese code of GB23 12.
With the appearance of Unicode cross-language coding set, Unicode can represent not only traditional and simplified Chinese characters, but also Japanese and Korean characters. Because all computer companies such as Microsoft, Apple and IBM support Unicode, it is widely adopted all over the world.
In Chinese mainland, a set of GBK codes has been implemented. On the basis of GB23 12 simplified Chinese code, codes of traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean are added, which have been used in Taiwan Province Province and other places.