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Appendix D: Glossary

and 10 through 15). Previous versions were

dated 1986 and 1992 with fewer characters.

Planes 1 and 2 are roughly equivalent to Big

Five, which is used much more frequently. See

also Big Five.

CNS 14649-1:2002

Taiwan’s version of the ISO 10646 standard,

and equivalent to Unicode version 3.0. See

also ISO 10646.

CNS 14649-2:2003

Taiwan’s version of the ISO 10646 standard,

and equivalent to Unicode version 3.1. See

also ISO 10646.

CNS-Roman

e Taiwanese equivalent of the ASCII char-

acter set and encoding. e name of the stan-

dard that denes this character set is called

CNS 5205-1989. See CNS 5205-1989.

Code Page

IBM and Microso terminology for a char-

acter set and encoding combination. CJKV

Code Pages, because of the sheer number of

characters, rarely take up a single page.

Code position

e numeric code within an encoding meth-

od that is used to refer to a specic character.

For two-byte characters, this refers to the row

and the cell.

Code space

 (kōdo ryōiki) in Japanese. e

space in which characters can be encoded ac-

cording to the specications of a given encod-

ing method. Code positions outside the code

space are considered invalid.

Coded Character Set

A mapping from a set of abstract characters

to a set of integers. A character set that is in-

tended to be encoded. All the character sets

described in Chapter 3 are valid ...