UNIPEN and Kanji, Katakana, Hiragana

Here are the GIF images of these characters:

An annotation coding proposal

The character .SEGMENT entries can be coded as follows (example), using hexadecimal Shift-JIS codes:

Terse annotation:
.SEGMENT CHARACTER 1-12 OK "JISx8d95" The syntax is: JISx .......fixed tag ffff ...four hexadecimal numbers

More on JIS Kanji codes is here. For UNIPEN "Shift-JIS", which is more modern and Microsoft compatible than JIS, is probably the preferred choice. Shift-JIS is the variant that modern WWW browsers like Netscape will accept if you choose the proper font. Thus, JIS in this UNIPEN format proposal implies Shift-JIS or SJIS.

Here is the original UNIPEN file: masaaki-kurosu.dat

Extended annotation:
.SEGMENT CHARACTER 1-12 OK "JISx8d95_'Kuro'" The extended syntax is: JISx ................fixed tag ffff ............four hexadecimal numbers _ ...........fixed separator 'string' ...English pronunciation in the given context (or one possible and common English pronunciation)

More information on the UNIPEN format is here.

Rationale

The image above shows this handwritten sample together with the vertical pen-tip displacement time function. Sampling frequency was 100 Hz: each sample point is taken at 10 ms intervals.

The characters were kindly written by Prof. Masaaki Kurosu of Shizuoka University.

Here is another sample

And what about Hanzi for Chinese users of UNIPEN?

   ~{3BO~~6+~}
   ~{N:QG9p~}