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Article #353Re: Dumb Americans (was INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST)
From: Boyd Roberts
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1993 16:39
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1993 16:39
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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. > 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. In Japanese the problem is similar, but you have the kana which helps. And you say that all this `side information' should be encoded into the character set? Just how big will your encoding be? Boyd Roberts boyd@prl.dec.com ``When the going gets wierd, the weird turn pro...''
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Newsgroups: comp.std.internat Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!decuac!pa.dec.com!decprl!decprl!boyd From: boyd@prl.dec.com (Boyd Roberts) Subject: Re: Dumb Americans (was INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST) Message-ID: <1993Jan1.163927.20277@prl.dec.com> Keywords: ISO10646 Unicode Sender: news@prl.dec.com (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: spooky.prl.dec.com Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation - Paris Research Laboratory References: <8490@charon.cwi.nl> <1hvu79INN4qf@rodan.UU.NET> <1i0oj2INNp4v@life.ai.mit.edu> <1i13rrINNars@rodan.UU.NET> Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 16:39:27 GMT Lines: 20