- From: Tom Bishop, Wenlin Institute <tangmu@wenlin.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 11:42:19 -0700
- To: public-cdl@w3.org
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 > > --- > <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! > > --- > > > > 文林 Wenlin Institute, Inc. Software for Learning Chinese E-mail: wenlin@wenlin.com Web: http://www.wenlin.com Telephone: 1-877-4-WENLIN (1-877-493-6546) ☯
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