KanjiVG: Kanji Vector Graphics

KanjiVG is copyright Ulrich Apel and released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 licence:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

See the file COPYING for more details.

The project's documentation is at https://kanjivg.tagaini.net/.

The files in the release are as follows:

• kanjivg-YYYYMMDD-main.zip

This zip file contains all of the non-variant SVG files in the same format as they were in the repository at the time the release was made. This is the file which is recommended for most users who simply want a set of SVG graphics they can use immediately.

• kanjivg-YYYYMMDD-all.zip

This zip file contains all of the SVG files, including the variant forms, in the same format as they were in the repository at the time the release was made.

• kanjivg-YYYYMMDD-stripped.zip

This zip file contains all of the SVG files, including the variant forms, but with all of the attributes such as the stroke type, radical, or element removed from the files. This file is specifically for people who use XML parsers which limit the use of user-defined attributes.

• kanjivg-YYYYMMDD.xml.gz

The file kanjivg-YYYYMMDD.xml.gz contains all of the non-variant SVG files in one large XML structure. This is the format in which KanjiVG was first released. However, although this format will not be removed, it should now be considered obsolete, and is only provided for users who want to keep using "legacy" software written for the old format. This file is generated by kvg.py.

• Source code files

These are the entire repository's source code files. These are generated by github.

• A utility for unpacking the information in KanjiVG is provided in kvg-lookup.py. Please see its source code for documentation.

• Releases are generated using the updatepublic.sh shell script.

• kvg.py generates the legacy format data.

• There is some Python library code in kanjivg.py, utils.py, and xmlhandler.py for manipulating the files.

• The file make-index.py is for making an index of the kanji files called kvg-index.json. This index file is used by the online KanjiVG viewer at the kanjivg website. Unfortunately the index file needs to be part of this repository in order that the Javascript viewer can work properly.

• clean.py removes unnecessary files which have accumulated.