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ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2/IRG N1757 Preliminary Proposal for an Ideographic Variation Database Registration John H. Jenkins 井作恆 Richard Cook 曲理查 Ken Lunde 小林劍 Unicode Technical Committee 6 April 2011 Summary This documented is being presented to IRG members for information only. No action is required. The Unicode Technical Committee maintains a database of Han ideographs which have been brought to its attention as potential candidates for encoding. This database is found in Unicode Technical Report #45, U-source Ideographs (UTR 45, found at http:// /reports/tr45/). All U-source indices refer to this document, but a fuller description of the sources for these ideographs is found in Unicode Standard Annex #38, Unicode Han Database (UAX 38, found at /reports/tr38/). The UTC is currently investigating the possibility of representing a number of the unencoded ideographs in UTR 45 via registered ideographic variation sequences (IVSs) as described in Unicode Technical Standard #37, Unicode Ideographic Variation Database (UTS 37, found at /reports/tr37/). The actual database of registered variation sequences is referred to as the Ideographic Variation Database (IVD). This document summarizes the current state of that investigation. Rationale The forms included in this proposal are all completely synonymous with the base characters in question. Usage of one form rather than another reflects locale-specific preference, and any differences in glyph shape are otherwise irrelevant to UCS encoding. The proposed forms are all regular modern simplifications of traditional Chinese characters, produced by applying well-known simplification rules. The cases presented here involve only one-to-one mappings, and conversion from one form to the other is completely reversible. 1 There is currently an expectation that registered variation sequences cover only forms which are unifiable under Annex S rules (see UTS 37 §2). Registering the current collection would involve a bro