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- From: melby@dove.yk.fujitsu.co.jp (John B. Melby)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
- Subject: Re: Dumb Americans (was INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST)
- Message-ID: <MELBY.93Jan22160502@dove.yk.fujitsu.co.jp>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 16:05:02 GMT
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- Organization: Open Systems Group, Fujitsu Limited, Yokohama
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- In-reply-to: glenn@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu's message of 22 Jan 93 02:17:36 GMT
-
- >[stroke count] is like having a dollar sign
- >glyph with one stroke or two strokes through an S, or having one with
- >a single vertical stroke that intersects the whole S, or extends vertically
- >from the top and bottom arches without fully intersecting the S.
-
- Stroke count, per se, is more of a handwriting issue. Stroke position is
- more important.
-
- An example of a unification to which people have very strong objections
- is that of the Japanese and Chinese simplified forms for "yo (ataeru) / yu4"
- ("to impart," "to"). The Chinese form has a horizontal stroke that does not
- intersect the main stroke, whereas the horizontal stroke in the Japanese form
- does intersect it.
-
- The difference above is more serious than the dollar-sign variants
- mentioned previously, since official modern simplified forms of
- characters are more well-defined (and enforced) than traditional
- variants. (Food for thought: have you heard of a US student
- being criticized by a teacher for having the wrong number of bars
- in a dollar sign?)
-
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- John B. Melby
- Fujitsu Limited, Yokohama
- melby@yk.fujitsu.co.jp
-