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Article #245Re: Int'l character sets (Re: Are the funny letters really needed?)
From: Craig Wylie
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1986 13:11
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1986 13:11
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>> And of course it's a very big tail wagging a small dog. The tail is the >> vast majority of the people in the world who don't have English as their >> native language and the dog is those who do. > >No, there are many dogs, and the Chinese one is not only bigger than the >Swedish one, it's bigger than the English-speaking one. Chinese won't even >fit into an 8-bit character set, and lord only knows *how* you sort Chinese >strings! ... I have seen some English Chinese dictionaries that use the number of strokes in the character to sort. Currently trying to find a Chinese Researcher to ask her personally. Craig. -- UUCP: ...!seismo!mcvax!ukc!dcl-cs!craig| Post: University of Lancaster, DARPA: craig%lancs.comp@ucl-cs | Department of Computing, JANET: craig@uk.ac.lancs.comp | Bailrigg, Lancaster, UK. Phone: +44 524 65201 Ext. 4146 | LA1 4YR Project: Cosmos Distributed Operating Systems Research Group
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!mcvax!ukc!dcl-cs!craig From: craig@dcl-cs.UUCP (Craig Wylie) Newsgroups: net.internat Subject: Re: Int'l character sets (Re: Are the funny letters really needed?) Message-ID: <1026@dcl-cs.UUCP> Date: Wed, 26-Feb-86 08:11:33 EST Article-I.D.: dcl-cs.1026 Posted: Wed Feb 26 08:11:33 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 1-Mar-86 04:43:17 EST References: <172@bu-cs.UUCP> <1176@enea.UUCP> <3268@sun.uucp> Reply-To: craig@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Craig Wylie) Distribution: net Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University, UK. Lines: 22