《通用規範漢字表》8,105 characters is the new PRC character set

[feng]

I'm a little bit late (and a bit peeved as I was working with their 《現代漢語通用字表》for a project [edit: after a good night's sleep I realize that it won't be a tremendous obstacle]).

Here is the Chinese:
http://www.gov.cn/zwgk/2013-08/19/content_2469793.htm

In a nutshell, instead of the character set for the PRC being the 7,008 characters of 《現代漢語通用字表》that was put in effect in 1988, there is a new list called《通用規範漢字表》which has 8,105 characters (in three parts). They have not reinstated any traditional characters heretofore simplified, but they have reinstated some characters formerly proscribed as variants.

 

[mikelove]

Anything not in GB18030? (I assume not, but just reassuring myself this won't require any changes to our tricky-to-update Chinese fonts or handwriting recognizer templates)

 

[feng]

If 18030 is the one with 30,000 characters, I guess not, but I am the wrong person to ask about encoding

 

[mikelove]

Ah, thanks.