> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 8:36 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; beginners@perl.org; > Mumia W.; Beginners List > Subject: Re: still working with utf8 > > > >Yes, be prepared for the fact that not all foreign languages will > > >support the concept of spaces between words. I don't know > anything about > > >Japanese, but I do vaguely remember from high school that, > for Chinese > > >texts, there are often no spaces between words and the reader's > > >knowledge of the language allows him or her to infer the > word separations. > > > > So the chinese might have a sentence like: > > thequickbrownfoxjumpedoverthefence > > and it's up to you, the reader, to figure out where the spaces are? >
It has been a while since I had to deal with Asian character sets, but for Chinese and (I believe) Kanji (Japanese) each pictograph (character) is a word, so no spaces are required. Katakana is the phonetic version of Japanese, which may or may not have spaces between the words. I never had to read them, only validate that the images in the service manuals looked like what was being displayed or printed. Bob McConnell -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
