From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 1 4:28:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C29F6150D2; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 04:28:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p26-dn03kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [210.232.224.155]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) with ESMTP id VAA29888; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 21:28:01 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <381D8507.29295709@newsguy.com> Date: Mon, 01 Nov 1999 21:18:15 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexey Zelkin Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: rune questions References: <19991101122450.A24299@scorpion.crimea.ua> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alexey Zelkin wrote: > > But I don't see anywhere descirptions on PHONOGRAM and IDEOGRAM. Manpages > shown that these categories were used by Japan locale only (again without any > descriptions :-( ) On a guess, it might distinguish between hiragana/katakana and kanji. The former are a syllabic "alphabets", while the later have "meaning" attached. Written japanese use all three. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "People call him Neutron Star, 'cuz he's so dense lights bends around him." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message