Re: Dumb Americans (was INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST)

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From: Masataka Ohta
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 03:34

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	glenn@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu (Glenn A. Adams) writes:

>>>Tell me how I sort on stroke count in Unicode without ``locale-specific
>>>algorithms or hard-coded data''?
>
>If it is Han characters that are being sorted, then Unicode already orders
>them according to KangXi radicals (214) and (additional) stroke count.

Different characters are mapped to a single code point in 10646/Unicode.

Different Characters with different stroke counts are mapped to a
single code point in 10646/Unicode.

Thus, if you use 10646/Unicode, stroke count is context dependent. Don't
use it.

						Masataka Ohta

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Subject: Re: Dumb Americans (was INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST)
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