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collections, and have made them available for developers or anyone else to use.
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In fact,
these Unicode CMap resources, with the exception of the UCS-2 ones, are considered the
primary CMap resources today, and in general are the only ones that are updated on a
regular basis.
ere are two types of events that trigger Unicode CMap resource updates. One is obvi-
ously the denition of a new Supplement for a character collection. e other is a new ver-
sion of Unicode. Unicode version 5.1, for example, allowed seven previously unencoded
kanji to be encoded, thus triggering seven additional mappings in the Adobe-Japan1-6
Unicode CMap resources.
Table 6-39 lists each of Adobe Systems’ CJKV character collections, along with the name
of each Unicode-encoded CMap resource.
Unicode CMap resourcesTable 6-39.
Character collection UCS-2
a
UTF-8 UTF-16BE UTF-32BE
Adobe-GB1-5 UniGB-UCS2-H UniGB-UTF8-H UniGB-UTF16-H UniGB-UTF32-H
Adobe-CNS1-5 UniCNS-UCS2-H UniCNS-UTF8-H UniCNS-UTF16-H UniCNS-UTF32-H
Adobe-Japan1-6
b
UniJIS-UCS2-H
c
UniJIS-UTF8-H UniJIS-UTF16-H UniJIS-UTF32-H
d
Adobe-Japan2-0 UniHojo-UCS2-H UniHojo-UTF8-H UniHojo-UTF16-H UniHojo-UTF32-H
Adobe-Korea1-2 UniKS-UCS2-H UniKS-UTF8-H UniKS-UTF16-H UniKS-UTF32-H
The UCS-2 CMap resources are obsolete, and their use is deprecated. The corresponding UTF-16BE CMap resource should be used instead.a.
The Adobe-Japan1-6 character collection ...