Re: Lexical order of Hiragana/Katakana?

[Alex Sayle]

On 22/07/2004, at 9:15 PM, Changwoo Ryu wrote:

> I want to ask about the lexical order of Hiragana/Katakana.
>
> In the Unicode Hiragana [1] /Katakana [2] charts, every "small" letters
> appear just before their "big" ones.  For example (UTF-8 warning),
>
> ぁあぃい...っつ
>
> "imhangul" and "nabi" Korean input methods provide Hiragana/Katakana
> input
> for convenience.  They follow these Unicode orders for the
> Hiragana/Katakata list.
>
> (In "nabi" (1) switch to Hangul mode and (2) type "g" and F9.
> In "imhangul" (2) switch to Hangul mode and (2) type"E" and F9.)
>
>
> But I thought big ones should appear first..  I know a little Japanese
> and know that
> the small letters are used less than the big ones.  What is the typical
> lexical order
> of the big letters and the small letters?

The lexical order is あ(a)　to ん(nn)　then small ones then the ones like 
がぎぐげご　
(ga gi gu ge go) then ぱぴぷぺぽ (pa pi pu pe po)　 and that's how it should
be ordered.

>
> [1] http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U3040.pdf
> [2] http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U30A0.pdf
>
>
> -- 
> Changwoo Ryu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
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