From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 11 21:38:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA27788 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 21:38:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from waru.life.nthu.edu.tw (frankch@waru.life.nthu.edu.tw [140.114.98.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA27735 for ; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 21:37:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from frankch@waru.life.nthu.edu.tw) Received: (from frankch@localhost) by waru.life.nthu.edu.tw (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA26507; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 12:42:45 +0800 (CST) (envelope-from frankch) Message-ID: <19980612124245.33715@waru.life.nthu.edu.tw> Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 12:42:45 +0800 From: Chen Hsiung Chan To: Jun-ichiro itojun Itoh Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: internationalization References: <199806120309.UAA11238@usr09.primenet.com> <2754.897624427@coconut.itojun.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=big5 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88 In-Reply-To: <2754.897624427@coconut.itojun.org>; from Jun-ichiro itojun Itoh on Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 01:07:07PM +0900 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 01:07:07PM +0900, Jun-ichiro itojun Itoh wrote: [deleted] > >The point is not a reduction in an alphabetic symbol space, as in > >your A-F example. > >A switch from Kanji to Kana would not damage the ability to represent > >any Japanese words; it's a switch from an ideogrammatic to an > >alphabetic representation. > > bzzzz, you are wrong. We Japnaese can't live without Kanji. > Kanji is not an extra character sets. Kanji is mandatory > character set for us, just like G-Z for you. Believe me, > I speak and write Japanese every day :-) That's also true for Chinese. We can not live with only phonetic symbols, whether that be bopomofo or pinyin or anything else. -- Chen-Hsiung Chan [¸âÂíºµ](BIG5) Department of Life Science http://waru.life.nthu.edu.tw/~frankch/ National Tsing Hua University email: frankch@waru.life.nthu.edu.tw Taiwan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message