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Chapter 3: Character Set Standards

 xìnxī jiāohuàn yòng hànzì biānm zìfújí—dìsì fzhùjí). Tables 3-31 and 3-32 list the

character allocation for GB 7589-87 and GB 7590-87, respectively.

e GB 7589-87 character setTable 3-31.

Row Characters Content

0–15 0 Unassigned

16–92 7,237 Hanzi (last is 92-93)

e GB 7590-87 character setTable 3-32.

Row Characters Content

0–15 0 Unassigned

16–90 7,039 Hanzi (last is 9-83)

It is interesting to note that all the hanzi specied in GB 7589-87 and GB 7590-87 are

handwritten. Needless to say, fonts that support these character set standards are scarce.

Note that not all hanzi in the simplied character set standards are replaced by a corre-

sponding traditional hanzi. In the case of the GB 2312-80 and GB/T 12345-90 pair, 2,180

additional hanzi are needed to transform GB 2312-80 into GB/T 12345-90. e majority

are simple one-to-one replacements, but some are hanzi that swap code points or split

into two or more separate hanzi (some simplied hanzi were derived from two or more

traditional hanzi).

Appendix G provides complete GB 2312-80 and GB/T 12345-90 code tables. An inad-

equate supply of fonts precluded the inclusion of code tables for the other GB character

set standards that were mentioned thus far. is volume also includes a reading index for

Level 1 hanzi and a radical index for Level 2 hanzi. But note that the GB 2312-80 standard

itself, ...