<s>
The	O
Chinese	B-Language
character	I-Language
description	I-Language
languages	I-Language
are	O
several	O
proposed	O
languages	O
to	O
most	O
accurately	O
and	O
completely	O
describe	O
Chinese	O
(	O
or	O
CJK	O
)	O
characters	O
and	O
information	O
such	O
as	O
their	O
list	O
of	O
components	O
,	O
list	O
of	O
strokes	O
(	O
basic	O
and	O
complex	O
)	O
,	O
their	O
order	O
,	O
and	O
the	O
location	O
of	O
each	O
of	O
them	O
on	O
a	O
background	O
empty	O
square	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Character	B-Language
Description	I-Language
Language	I-Language
is	O
a	O
font	O
technology	O
,	O
based	O
on	O
XML	B-Protocol
,	O
co-created	O
by	O
Tom	O
Bishop	O
and	O
Richard	O
Cook	O
for	O
Wenlin	B-Language
Institute	I-Language
,	I-Language
Inc	I-Language
,	O
designed	O
for	O
describing	O
any	O
CJK	O
character	O
,	O
but	O
suitable	O
for	O
describing	O
any	O
glyph	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
XML-based	O
declarative	B-Language
language	I-Language
defines	O
the	O
stroke	O
order	O
of	O
each	O
component	O
(	O
a	O
subunit	O
of	O
the	O
glyph	B-Application
similar	O
to	O
a	O
radical	O
,	O
but	O
not	O
necessarily	O
bearing	O
the	O
semantic	O
significance	O
of	O
a	O
true	O
radical	O
)	O
,	O
as	O
well	O
as	O
assembly	O
of	O
previously	O
defined	O
components	O
to	O
build	O
up	O
ever	O
more	O
complex	O
characters	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
background	O
looks	O
like	O
a	O
square	O
of	O
128	O
pixels	B-Algorithm
on	O
each	O
side	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Each	O
of	O
about	O
50	O
strokes	O
can	O
be	O
drawn	O
in	O
SVG	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
character	B-Language
description	I-Language
language	I-Language
intended	O
for	O
supplying	O
missing	O
rare	O
characters	O
in	O
documents	O
(	O
addressing	O
the	O
Chinese	O
equivalent	O
of	O
the	O
gaiji	O
problem	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
prototype	O
software	O
uses	O
Metapost	B-Language
to	O
render	O
the	O
characters	O
and	O
embed	O
them	O
in	O
LaTeX	B-Application
documents	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
language	O
was	O
presented	O
by	O
Wai	O
Wong	O
in	O
1997	O
,	O
and	O
papers	O
about	O
its	O
implementation	O
in	O
Metapost	B-Language
and	O
LaTeX	B-Application
appeared	O
at	O
TeX	O
user	O
group	O
conferences	O
in	O
2003	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
KanjiVG	O
(	O
Kanji	O
Vector	O
Graphics	O
)	O
is	O
a	O
free	O
,	O
Creative	O
Commons-licensed	O
Japanese	O
character	B-Language
description	I-Language
language	I-Language
(	O
intended	O
to	O
eventually	O
expand	O
to	O
Chinese	O
as	O
well	O
)	O
based	O
on	O
the	O
SVG	B-Application
vector	O
graphics	O
format	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2007	O
,	O
Structural	O
Character	O
Modeling	O
Language	O
was	O
proposed	O
as	O
a	O
different	O
kind	O
of	O
XML-based	O
Chinese-character	O
description	O
language	O
whose	O
positioning	O
is	O
not	O
based	O
on	O
a	O
numerical	O
grid	O
,	O
as	O
CDL	O
and	O
HanGlyph	B-Language
are	O
.	O
</s>
