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- From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
- Subject: Re: Dumb Americans (was INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST)
- Keywords: Han Kanji Katakana Hirugana ISO10646 Unicode Codepages
- Message-ID: <8490@charon.cwi.nl>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 10:44:03 GMT
- References: <1992Dec30.010216.2550@nobeltech.se> <1992Dec30.061759.8690@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <1hu9v5INNbp1@rodan.UU.NET>
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- In article <1hu9v5INNbp1@rodan.UU.NET> avg@rodan.UU.NET (Vadim Antonov) writes:
- > Having unique glyphs works ONLY WITHIN a group of languages
- > which are based on variations of a single alphabet with
- > non-conflicting alphabetical ordering and sets of
- > vowels. You can do that for European languages.
-
- Wrong Vadim. You cannot even do it in the European languages. You cannot
- even do it in German. How would you assign codes such that the German
- A-umlaut sorts as if it is the letter combination AE, and at the same
- time the umpteenth letter of Swedish (after Z). How would you encode
- spanish where the letter combinations CH and LL are regarded as single
- letters? Or Maltese where the GH-crossbar combination is a single letter
- that does not sort in the neighbourhood of G or H-crossbar but between
- P and Q? Or dutch, where the letter combination ij is sorted either
- amongst i as a double letter, or amongst y as a single letter, or
- between y and z as a single letter, depending on who does the sorting?
-