This has got rather off-topic, so I probably won't respond again. [Tomohiro KUBOTA (Re: [I18n]ISO 10646 Fonts and XFontSet question) writes:] >> Jim Breen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 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... See below. >> > 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 am quoting reports from several Japanese NS educationalists who have examined this issue and determined that the average kanji recognition level among Japanese is well below the full Jouyou kanji set, and that relatively few can readily recognize kanji outside that set. Note that this is from reported recent studies, and not "from literatures". I have no way of confirming or refuting this myself. I you can point me at studies that contradict these findings, I would be very interested. Cheers 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
