Re: CDL W3C Community Group

Thanks to all for joining, and thanks to Richard for organizing the group!

Tom

On Aug 21, 2014, at 11:02 AM, Richard COOK <rscook@unicode.org> wrote:

> Dear Everyone,
> 
> Thanks so much to everyone who has joined the CDL Community Group in W3C.
> 
> This test message is to let you know that this list exists for member use.
> 
> Also, I'll take this opportunity to give some news about group membership.
> 
> We have invited several colleagues from US, ROC, PRC and Japan to join, and we expect to see more people join this group soon. However ...
> 
> * Some in PRC have told me that they are blocked from W3C websites and by The Great Firewall.
> 
> Such people may not be able to participate except vicariously, or when they are travelling abroad.
> 
> * Some who work for US companies which are members of W3C have explained to me that they must overcome certain bureaucratic hurdles in order to participate.
> 
> Hopefully such corporate hurdles are more surmountable than The Great Firewall.
> 
> Help us build an international standard for CJK glyph data in W3C!
> 
> Current members can help spread the word, and help us to invite more interested parties to join (see below).
> 
> Best wishes!
> 
> -Richard Cook
> 
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>  <http://www.w3.org/community/cdl/join>
> 
> If you contributed to the "CJK Strokes" work in IRG, 
> or if you have talked to CDL contributors in the last 15 years, 
> then you already know what CDL is. In sum:
> 
> * CDL is a powerful new font technology developed at Wenlin Institute, Inc.
> * CDL fonts can have any number of glyphs, limited only by available memory!
> * CDL is able to represent any and all glyph variants of any character.
> * CDL glyphs have built-in stroke-level CJK indexing, meaningful to humans!
> * CDL descriptions can be associated with zero or more UCS code points.
> * CDL development contributes to Unihan development in Unicode/ISO 10646.
> * CDL can feed into the UCS encoding process, and help manage IVD data.
> * CDL specializes in CJK, but is more generally applicable!
> 
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