Date: 12 Jun 1998 16:12:39 +0900 From: CHOI Junho <junker@jazz.snu.ac.kr> To: Chen Hsiung Chan <frankch@waru.life.nthu.edu.tw> Cc: Jun-ichiro itojun Itoh <itojun@iijlab.net>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: internationalization Message-ID: <wk90n3855k.fsf@jazz.snu.ac.kr> In-Reply-To: Chen Hsiung Chan's message of Fri, 12 Jun 1998 12:42:45 %2B0800 References: <199806120309.UAA11238@usr09.primenet.com> <2754.897624427@coconut.itojun.org> <19980612124245.33715@waru.life.nthu.edu.tw>
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Chen Hsiung Chan <frankch@waru.life.nthu.edu.tw> writes: > 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. That's also true for Korean. :) We are somehow different from Japanese and Chinese, because generally we are using almost only Hangul glyphs in Computers(usually chatting, mail, short articles not serious). But Hanja - aka Kanji in Japanese - is used widely for Office, Newspapers, Books, formal articles, etc. We learned Hanja in middle and high school. CJK people can't live without Hanja|Kanji|Hanzi :) -- ----Cool FreeBSD!----MSX Forever!---J.U.N.K.E.R/Beat Snatchers!---- CHOI Junho <junker@jazz.snu.ac.kr> http://jazz.snu.ac.kr/~junker Distributed Computing System Lab,CS Dept.,Seoul National Univ., ROK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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