International Ideographs Core (IICore) is a subset of up to ten thousand
CJK Unified Ideographs
The Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK) scripts share a common background, collectively known as CJK characters. In the process called Han unification, the common (shared) characters were identified and named CJK Unified Ideographs. As of Unicode ...
characters, which can be implemented on devices with limited memories and capability that make it not feasible to implement the full
ISO 10646/
Unicode
Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard,The formal version reference is is an information technology Technical standard, standard for the consistent character encoding, encoding, representation, and handling of Character (computing), text expre ...
standard.
History
The IICore subset was initially raised in the 21st meeting of the
Ideographic Rapporteur Group The Ideographic Research Group (IRG), formerly called the Ideographic Rapporteur Group, is a subgroup of Working Group 2 (WG2) of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 (SC 2), the subcommittee of the Joint Technical Committee of ISO and IEC which is responsible for d ...
(IRG) in
Guilin during 17th-20 November in 2003, and is subsequently passed in the group's 22nd meeting in
Chengdu
Chengdu (, ; Simplified Chinese characters, simplified Chinese: 成都; pinyin: ''Chéngdū''; Sichuanese dialects, Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: ), Chinese postal romanization, alternatively Romanization of Chi ...
in May 2004.
See also
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Chinese character encoding
In computing, Chinese character encodings can be used to represent text written in the CJK languages—Chinese, Japanese, Korean—and (rarely) obsolete Vietnamese, all of which use Chinese characters. Several general-purpose character enc ...
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Han unification
References
External links
International Ideographs Core (IICORE) Comparison Utility
Chinese-language computing
Encodings of Japanese
Korean language
Unicode
Natural language and computing
Character encoding
Mobile computers
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