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- proper noun computing, typography A
character set , asubset ofUnicode , that attempts tounify the regional and historical variants ofHan characters by treating them as differentglyphs representing the samegrapheme .
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In January, AsusTek split into three separate entities Asus, which deals primarily with Asus-branded PCs and laptops including the wildly popular EEE PC, Pegatron, which handles the motherboard business (though we keep the Asus brand name on them), and Unihan, which handles many of the other non-PC related Asus product line.
10 Secrets To Getting Better Tech Support From Asus - The Consumerist 2008
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The third company, Unihan, will handle chassis and sub-component manufacturing.
Archive 2008-01-01 2008
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Through an interesting Language Log post ("Semen, green rice and the rate of internet decay") by Mark Liberman, I learned about the Unihan site (it was actually mentioned in the comments to this LH post from last year, but there was so much else being discussed I didn't even notice it).
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Then when the consensus was actually acted upon, and PropertyAliases.txt with the changes started to see review, it dawned on everybody that, rather than have the official Unihan tag be a third alias, it should be the "long" name in the PropertyAliases.txt.
Site Home Michael S. Kaplan 2011
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Because the Unihan tags in the Unihan Database have longstanding status, predating by at least a decade the decision to tack "cj" onto the front of them for PropertyAliases.txt, and because the Unihan tags are used everywhere in the Unihan Database and its documentation, it became clear that those had to be the official name of those properties.
Site Home Michael S. Kaplan 2011
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Then, the Unihan tag itself (without the "cj" prefix) would be added as a (third) alias, because people might well be using the exact Unihan tag for matching, and it wouldn't make sense to disable that.
Site Home Michael S. Kaplan 2011
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And the UTC wanted the labels with the "cj" on them in the short abbreviated field, because everybody agreed that there was no utility to attempting to shorten the Unihan tags further; they would just turn into unmnemonic gobblydegook.
Site Home Michael S. Kaplan 2011
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Pegatron needs more time: Q&A with Denese Yao, spokesperson for Pegatron and Unihan
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Pegatron needs more time: Q&A with Denese Yao, spokesperson for Pegatron and Unihan
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Last year most of you will probably remember that ASUS divided its core company into three parts - Asus, Pegatron and Unihan.
Overclock3D.Net 2008
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