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- From: mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
- Subject: Re: Dumb Americans (was INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST)
- Keywords: Han Kanji Katakana Hirugana ISO10646 Unicode Codepages
- Message-ID: <2807@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 12:03:10 GMT
- References: <2676@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp> <1ippgmINN7af@life.ai.mit.edu> <2770@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp> <1jnlg0INN9n4@life.ai.mit.edu>
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- In article <1jnlg0INN9n4@life.ai.mit.edu>
- glenn@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu (Glenn A. Adams) writes:
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- Glenn, you stop saying anything on Han. You know nothing.
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- >>Its shape in Japanese or mainland China is
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- >>whose stroke count is 3, while its shape in Taiwan and Korea is
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- >>whose stroke count is 4. But, these different characters with differently
- >>shaped radicals are unified in Unicode.
- >
- >Yes, this is a good example of where there is a difference in how
- >people count strokes.
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- Wrong.
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- >No, this is not the way it is counted in these countries. That is, you
- >cannot say that all of Taiwan and Korea always count 3 strokes; similarly
- >you cannot say that all of China and Japan always count 4 strokes.
- >Different people count (or write) these radicals differently independently
- >of their country of origin.
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- Wrong.
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- All Chines, Japanese, Korean ALWAYS cont the stroke of
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- * *
- ****************
- * *
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- 3 and the stroke of
-
- * *
- ******* *******
- * *
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- 4.
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- There is no exception.
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- >However, in all cases there is absolutely no difference in meaning.
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- Meaning is meaningless here. You can write Greek script with Latin alphabet
- without changing meaning.
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- >In these cases, the CJK-JRG chose a normative count to assign to
- >these characters;
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- You don't understand how stroke count is used.
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- Normative count is completely useless.
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- Masataka Ohta
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