Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 12:42:45 +0800 From: Chen Hsiung Chan <frankch@waru.life.nthu.edu.tw> To: Jun-ichiro itojun Itoh <itojun@iijlab.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: internationalization Message-ID: <19980612124245.33715@waru.life.nthu.edu.tw> In-Reply-To: <2754.897624427@coconut.itojun.org>; from Jun-ichiro itojun Itoh on Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 01:07:07PM %2B0900 References: <199806120309.UAA11238@usr09.primenet.com> <2754.897624427@coconut.itojun.org>
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On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 01:07:07PM +0900, Jun-ichiro itojun Itoh wrote:
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> >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
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