4.2.3: IPA Fonts
Develop and release IPAmj Mincho Font Other Information:
For computers to handle characters, the shape of the characters must be digitized and organized in fonts. IPA develops and
releases high-definition IPA Font, which can be used on any system for free. The font can be used on any type of system or
computer, because they are encoded in accordance with the international standard for character encoding, ISO/IEC 10646. IPA
Font has 11,000 characters defined by the JIS (Japanese Industry Standard). However, Japanese Kanji* characters for people's
names has tens of thousands of variants (see examples). Local governments need to support the names of their residents by
creating each variant character and handling it as original data on their systems. The fact that some fonts could not handle
all the variants made it difficult for interoperability between governmental systems. For this reason, IPA developed and released
IPAmj Mincho Font - which supports approximately 60,000 characters. With this font, an e-Government which is more convenient
to the public is possible. * Kanji: Japanese ideographic characters which share the same origin as China and Korea
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