Pin yin is replacing written chinese in Taiwan and Hong Kong and they are forgetting the writing of chars. Also
200K chars will obvious never fit in a 16 bit plane.. There are 72K Han chars CJK does not affect mainland china who have simplified all their characters ( The other nation use the historic script) Hence there are 2 sends of Chinese Chars in UCS-2 Ben >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] >On Behalf Of wren ng thornton >Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2010 6:56 AM >To: Discussions about the BitC language >Subject: Re: [bitc-dev] Unicode and bitc > >On 10/16/10 5:12 PM, Michal Suchanek wrote: >> On 16 October 2010 22:13, Jonathan S. Shapiro<[email protected]> >wrote: >>> Is there a syllabic script (something similar to a kana) in China? >> >> AFAIK there is not and cannot because it would not make sense for >Chinese. > >Not true. There's pinyin which is an official phonetic script taught to >elementary school kids before hanzi are taught. By and large it uses >ASCII characters plus standard accents (for marking tone). I'm not too >familiar with the guts of Unicode encodings, but the only thing that >would possibly present any difficulties are the u/U +umlaut +accent >characters, or maybe the hachek accent if the Czech got screwed in the >Unicode lottery. I'd suspect these are all base plane though, given as >pinyin was designed in part to deal with transcribing Chinese languages >into roman text. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinyin > >I can't say how much pinyin is used outside of elementary school, >linguistics texts, signs for foreigners, etc though. Not very much I'd >wager. > >-- >Live well, >~wren >_______________________________________________ >bitc-dev mailing list >[email protected] >http://www.coyotos.org/mailman/listinfo/bitc-dev >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >Version: 9.0.862 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3183 - Release Date: 10/16/10 >02:34:00 _______________________________________________ bitc-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.coyotos.org/mailman/listinfo/bitc-dev
