JIE Meng-en1,2, WU Jian1, JIA Yan-min1, LV Yuan-hua1,2
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1. Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China; 2. Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Non-BMP characters in the Unicode Standard are mostly used in the study of ancient books (e.g. CJK Ext-B), or in representing the scripts of minorities (e.g. Tibetan Ext-B). Thus, their users are rare, and lots of software, including software for office, fails to support them. Based on OpenOffice.org, this paper firstly analyses its state of arts of supporting non-BMP characters. Then several key questions, which should be taken into account while supporting non-BMP characters, are discussed. Furthermore, we provide reasonable solutions to each question mentioned above. Finally some samples in CJK and Tibetan are given to show the effects of OpenOffice.org after being enhanced.
JIE Meng-en, WU Jian, JIA Yan-min, LV Yuan-hua,.
Non-BMP Character Support in OpenOffice.org. Journal of Chinese Information Processing. 2007, 21(3): 111-116