Hi, At Wed, 3 Oct 2001 16:58:36 +1000 (EST), Jim Breen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [David Starner (Re: [I18n]ISO 10646 Fonts and XFontSet question) writes:] > >> Would it be possible to give a quick rundown on what the > >> Monbushou rules are? > > Well, a quick overview. > > - from the 1890s there were rumbles in educational circles in Japan about > the difficulty of learning so many kanji, and the desirability to reduce > the working set to a reasonable number. There were also concerns about the > "spelling" af the kana representation of the readings of kanji (snip) Thank you for your report. You know very well (well, bettern than I) about "written" or "official" rules. However, you don't know well on the real state of average Japanese people, which cannot be studied from literatures... > The limited set of kanji has survived pretty well. Only a small percentage > of Japanese know many kanji outside that list, and often they are just > for names. Many (I think majority part of) Japanese people know Kanjis outside the rules of Monbushou. I think newspapers and so on limit the set of usable Kanjis to these about 2000 Kanjis because they should be read by everyone. Of course it is unlikely that every Japanese are perfect Kanji students. --- 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
