G'day [Tomohiro KUBOTA (Re: [I18n]ISO 10646 Fonts and XFontSet question) writes:] >> At Mon, 1 Oct 2001 12:59:22 +1000 (EST), >> Jim Breen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > 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 Such arguments is obsolete in Japan.
Obsolete, yes. But one still hears it and reads it. >> I think nobody in Japan believes >> that usage of Unicode forces Japanese people to use Chinese glyph. I heard comments to that effect several times in the last 12 months. Not from up-to-date computer-literate people, but from linguistics people who had been influenced by the nonsense that had been said and written. There is at least one vituperative anti-Unicode book out that I glanced through (the name and author escape me.) >> For example, Japanese version of MS Windows has TrueType Unicode >> fonts with Japanese glyph and it displays Japanese text properly. Quite true, and although I twinge to say it, Bill's Road-to-Damascus conversion to Unicode and its subsequent embedding in NT and derivatives has guaranteed its success in what may have been a difficult battle. There are still the die-hards, and the BTRON people, but they are doomed, I hope. >> 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. Fortunately the CJK arena seems to be the only one where national glyph styles are so important. Imagine if we had to provide French-looking alphabetics, Yiddish-looking Hebrew, Korean-looking hanja, Saudi-looking Arabic, Uttar Pradesh-looking Devanagari, etc. etc. all in the one font file. Yoroshiku Jim -- Jim Breen [[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/] Computer Science & Software Engineering, Tel: +61 3 9905 3298 P.O Box 26, Monash University, Fax: +61 3 9905 5146 Clayton VIC 3800, Australia $B%8%`!&%V%j!<%s(B@$B%b%J%7%eBg3X(B _______________________________________________ I18n mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/i18n
