Bitstream has received certification of its GB18030 font, Bitstream Hei, from both the SLC (State Language Committee) and CITS/CESI (Committee on Information Technology Standards / China Electronics Standardization Institute).

The SLC and CITS/CESI are Chinese standards groups that approve multilingual fonts for distribution within the People’s Republic of China (PRC). This includes the GB18030 font, which is the PRC’s approved Chinese character set. The GB18030 font currently includes over 30,000 characters and supports Chinese, Mongolian, Tibetan, Yi, and Uyghur.

The Chinese government requires that fonts be certified before they can be licensed to software and hardware developers entering the Chinese marketplace. Bitstream has been working with the PRC government for several years in order to comply with the GB18030 standard.

GB18030 is officially referred to as “Chinese National Standard GB18030-2000: Information Technology - Chinese Ideograms Coded Character Set for Information Interchange - Extension for the Basic Set.” GB18030-2000 encodes characters in sequences of one, two, or four bytes, and can contain up to 1.6 million characters. It is a government-mandated conformance requirement for all products sold in China, effective as of September 1, 2001.

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