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| | FAQ - HAN & CJK |
 | | A: The development and extension of the CJK characters is being done by the Ideographic Rapporteur Group (IRG), which includes official representatives of China, Hong Kong (SAR), Macao (SAR), Singapore, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam, plus a representative from the Unicode consortium. |
 | | The only real limitation on the number of CJK characters in the standard is the ability of this group to process them, because the characters are increasingly obscure (no person — living or deceased — knows more than a fraction of the set already encoded). |
 | | Kanji characters are mapped to one of the blocks of CJK Unified Ideographs, CJK Compatibility Ideographs, CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A, or CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B in Unicode 4.0 / ISO/IEC 10646; or are mapped to CJK Compatibility Ideographs. |
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