Jungshik Shin wrote: >>Somehow I think the differences are somewhat more significant than that. > > > No way!! The difference between Franktur and Antigua is > far more significant that that between 'Chinese' glyphs and 'Japanese' > glyphs. When I tried to read German newspapers dating from 1920's, > I had to 'decipher' almost every single letter.
That's no valid comparison. The question is whether I, who has almost no knowledge of Kanji and Chinese, would be able to recognize the similarities easier than it is possible for you to decipher fraktur. I can read and write fraktur without any problems even though I had no formal education in doing this. It's something you pick up. In the same way a C or J or K speaker will perhaps pick up some knowledge which makes it easy/easier to read the [JK], [CK], or [CJ] glyphs respectively. I cannot say whether this is true or not. -- --------------. ,-. 444 Castro Street Ulrich Drepper \ ,-----------------' \ Mountain View, CA 94041 USA Red Hat `--' drepper at redhat.com `--------------------------- -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
