>On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 02:39:23AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >Every reader of English can read any Roman characters in any reasonable >> >font. The same is not true of CJK variants, so the comparison doesn't >> >really work. >> [The German Fraktur font of Latin being unreadable to English and many modern German readers.] > >I couldn't say. I don't know anything about German, which is why I said >"English". (Implying English text, of course.)
"can read any Roman characters". There's no problem with Japanese in a Japanese font. >Do read Tomohiro's post and see that this *is*, in fact, an issue worth >considering, and not simply ignoring it I merely was pointing out that this is not unique to CJK ideographs. There are cultural varients of the Latin script that are unreadable to people not from that cultural tradition, too, and they were unified with the Latin script. -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
