Hi, At Mon, 1 Oct 2001 12:59:22 +1000 (EST), Jim Breen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Problematic, yes, but is must be addressed cleanly and effectively. > Arguments over glyphs have bedevilled the acceptance of Unicode in the > CJK countries, and you still hear people in Japan saying "Unicode > characters look Chinese", despite JIS X 0221 carefully showing each > ideograph in distinct national glyph styles. Such arguments is obsolete in Japan. I think nobody in Japan believes that usage of Unicode forces Japanese people to use Chinese glyph. For example, Japanese version of MS Windows has TrueType Unicode fonts with Japanese glyph and it displays Japanese text properly. However, it is true that usage of Chinese or korean glyphs for Han Unification characters for Japanese text is unacceptable for Japanese. Domestic productions are not problematic. "Japanese version" of Windows can have Japanese glyph. However, thinking about "Japanese version" of XFree86 is insane. French people who learn Japanese using Unicode must be careful to choose Japanese glyph, especially in case when (s)he doesn't have a supervisor who can point out when wrong glyphs are used. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ "Introduction to I18N" http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ _______________________________________________ I18n mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/i18n
