On 17 October 2010 13:52, Ben Kloosterman <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >On 17 October 2010 09:41, Ben Kloosterman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Pin yin is replacing written chinese in Taiwan and Hong Kong and they > >are > >> forgetting the writing of chars. Also > > > >This is news to me. > > > >While my experience is only second hand as I don't speak Chinese > >myself I can't imagine easily replacing the ideograms with pinyin and > >preserving intelligible written text. > > Note its pinyin for writing, they can still read complex chars they are just > forgetting the detail required for composing them , this complexity is why > mainland china simplified the characters.
That should not affect electronic text much as there are multiple helpful IMs for writing the characters. Thanks Michal _______________________________________________ bitc-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.coyotos.org/mailman/listinfo/bitc-dev
