CJK Compatibility Forms is a Unicode block containing vertical glyph variants for east Asian compatibility. Its block name in Unicode 1.0 was CNS 11643 Compatibility, in reference to CNS 11643.

CJK Compatibility Forms[1] (PDF)
0123456789ABCDEF
U+FE3x︿
U+FE4x
Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 17.0

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the CJK Compatibility Forms block:

VersionFinal code pointsCountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
1.0.0U+FE30..FE44, FE49..FE4F28(to be determined)
3.2U+FE45..FE462Consolidated document containing 6 Japanese proposals, 1999-07-15
Addition of forty eight characters, 1999-09-13
Shibano, Kohji (2000-01-31), JCS proposal revised
,Rationale for non-Kanji characters proposed by JCS committee, 2000-03-15
, )Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2000-07-21), "8.20", Minutes from the SC2/WG2 meeting in Beijing, 2000-03-21 -- 24
Summary of Voting on SC 2 N 3503, ISO/IEC 10646-1: 2000/PDAM 1, 2001-03-09
4.0U+FE47..FE482"3", Amendment of the part concerning the Korean characters in ISO/IEC 10646-1:1998 amendment 5, 1999-07-29
Proposal for a New Work item (NP) to amend the Korean part in ISO/IEC 10646-1:1993, 1999-12-07
Annex B, Special characters compatible with KPS 9566-97 (To be extended), 1999-12-07
"3", Amendment of the part concerning the Korean characters in ISO/IEC 10646-1:1998 amendment 5 (Cover page and outline of proposal L2/99-380), 1999-12-07
Whistler, Ken (1999-12-09), "2.3", Comments to accompany a U.S. NO vote on JTC1 N5999, SC2 N3393, New Work item proposal (NP) for an amendment of the Korean part of ISO/IEC 10646-1:1993
, )"3", The technical justification of the proposal to amend the Korean character part of ISO/IEC 10646-1 (proposed addition of 79 symbolic characters), 2000-02-10
Karlsson, Kent (2000-03-02), Comments on DPRK New Work Item proposal on Korean characters
Proposal for the Addition of 82 Symbols to ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000, 2000-08-10
Everson, Michael (2000-08-30), Comments to Korean proposals (L2/00-284 - 289)
Report of the meeting of the Korean script ad hoc group, 2000-09-21
Proposal to add of 70 symbols to ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000, 2001-09-03
Kim, Kyongsok (2001-10-13), ROK's Comments about DPRK's proposal, WG2 N 2374, to add 70 symbols to ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000
Kim, Kyongsok (2001-10-16), A Report of Korean Script ad hoc group meeting on Oct. 15, 2001
Whistler, Ken (2001-10-30), "f. Miscellaneous symbol additions from DPRK standard", WG2 (Singapore) Resolution Consent Docket for UTC
Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-11-16), Request to Korean ad hoc group to generate mapping tables between ROK and DPRK national standards
, )Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2002-10-30), "T.12", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 42

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