RE: More Chinese stuff: Shennong Bencao

[Jorge Stolfi <stolfi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

    > [Claus anders:] a question about the s-jis version: I can read
    > msot of it , but find some UNICODE char (starting with
    > &....).What are these chars?

AFAIK, those are not Unicode but rare/obsolete characters that were not
included in the Unicode set.  The numbers are apparently indices into the
"KanjiBase" character database, maintained by Christian Wittern of Göttingen:

  http://www.gwdg.de/~cwitter/cw/taming.html
  
All the best,

--stolfi