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- From: boyd@prl.dec.com (Boyd Roberts)
- Subject: Re: Dumb Americans (was INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.163927.20277@prl.dec.com>
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- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 16:39:27 GMT
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- In article <1i13rrINNars@rodan.UU.NET>, avg@rodan.UU.NET (Vadim Antonov) writes:
- >
- > We were talking about lexicographical sorting, not abouth phonetics.
- > Your argument is irrelevant.
- >
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- In Chinese it would be natural if `sort' could sort on stroke count.
- Chinese dictionaries have indexes based on stroke count, as there is
- really no other way of locating a glyph whose reading (pronounciation)
- you do not know.
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- In Japanese the problem is similar, but you have the kana which helps.
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- And you say that all this `side information' should be encoded into the
- character set? Just how big will your encoding be?
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- Boyd Roberts boyd@prl.dec.com
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