
International Character Set Standards
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TCVN 6056:1995
A second Vietnamese character set standard, designated TCVN 6056:1995, Công nghệ
thông tin—Bộ Mã Chuẩn 16-Bit Chữ Nôm Dùng Trong Trao Đổi ông Tin—Chữ Nôm
Hán (Information Technology—Nom 16-Bit Standard Code for Information Interchange—
Han Nom Character), enumerates an additional 3,311 ideographs. e original TCVN
6056:1995 enumerated 3,349 characters, but it has since been revised. irty-eight
duplicate characters—duplicates of characters in both TCVN 5773:1993 and TCVN
6056:1995 itself—have been removed from the character set.
Whereas TCVN 5773:1993 included both Chinese (ch Hán) and “Nom proper” (ch
Nôm) characters, this standard includes only ch Hán (characters of true Chinese origin).
Appendix L provides a complete TCVN 6056:1995 code table.
As was the case with TCVN 5773:1993, these characters are ordered by radical, and then
by total number of strokes, and references to ISO 10646 code points are provided for
reference. All 3,311 of these characters map to ISO 10646 BMP code points. Remember
that TCVN 5773:1993 mapped most of its characters into ISO 10646’s PUA region.
Unicode compatibility with TCVN standards
While all 3,311 ideographs in TCVN 6056:1995 are included in Unicode, all of which are
in the URO, only 2,246 of the 2,357 ideographs in TCVN 5773:1993 are in Unicode, up
through version 5.1. ...