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Chinese Information Processing: Basic Concepts and Practice Week 2: Issues on Encoding Chinese Characters Character Standard Set Character sets are standard sets of characters established for two main purposes: 1. education (non-coded) 2. computing (coded). Non-coded Character Set: Hanzi in China Xiàndài Hànyǔ Tōngyòng Zìbiǎo 现代汉语通用字表 (Commonly Used Characters in Modern Chinese), published on March 25, 1988. It is a standardized list of 7,000 hanzi defined in Among these characters, 3,500 are chángyòng zì 常用字(frequently used characters) and 1,000 are cì chángyòng zì 次常用字 (secondary frequently used characters) Non-coded Character Set: Hanzi in China Jiǎnhuàzì zǒngbiǎo 简化字总表 (Simplified Character Table) enumerates 2,249 simplified hanzi. Table Characters Description 1 2 3 350 146 1,753 Independently simplified hanzi simplified characters components used in other hanzi hanzi simplified by using simplified components from Table 2 of the Simplified Character Table Non-coded Character Set: Hanzi in Taiwan 1. The basic set of hanzi in Taiwan is listed in a table called 常用國字標準字體表 chángyòng guózì biāozhǔn zìtǐ biǎo (The Table of Standard Commonly Used Chinese Characters). It enumerates 4,808 hanzi. 2. An additional set of 6,431 hanzi is defined in 次常用國字標準字體表 cì chángyòng guózì biāozhǔn zìtǐ biǎo (The Table of Standard Secondary Commonly Used Chinese Characters). 3. 18,480 rare hanzi are defined in 罕用字體表 hǎnyong zìtǐ biǎo (The Table of Rarely Used Characters) 4. 18,609 hanzi variants are defined in 異體國字字表 yìtǐ guózì zìbiǎo (The Table of Character Variants) (Source: Lunde, 1999. p. 68) Coded Character Set: ASCII ASCII: American Standard Code for Information Interchange In 1963, ASA (The American Standards Association ) announced the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII). Total number 128 Coded Character Set: ASCII Coded Character Set: ASCII Coded Character Set in China: GB GB is an abbreviation of Guo-jia Biao-zhun, or National Standard”