HKIUG TSVCC Table

Attempts to create TSVCC (Traditional, Simplified, Variant Chinese Characters) links for Chinese characters began in 2004. TSVCC linking allows retrieval systems to implement search logic so that searching one form of a character will also retrieve all the other forms. This linking information is particularly essential for native Unicode database system. Unlike EACC-based system that can make use of EACC's internal structure for linking, Unicode-based system has to rely on external resource in order to implement such linking logic.

There are two versions of the HKIUG TSVCC Table, one for EACC-based systems (version 1.0.5, released on 14 November 2013) and the other for Unicode-based systems (version 1.0, released on 18 July 2006).

Linking of TSVCC was developed by the HKIUG (Hong Kong Innovative Users Group) Unicode Task Force, chaired by Ki Tat Lam of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Library. HKIUG and the Unicode Task Force were dissolved on 30 June 2017.