On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Maiorana, Jason wrote:
> >Can we please maintain the distinctions between > >1. language, > >2. script, and > >3. typeface 'category' or other typeface differences. > > Thats really the question: Is the difference between > Hanzi and Kanji more one of typeface or of script. > I would argue that it is a real script difference, I strongly disagree with you on this point. Most people on the Unicode list would agree with me. If they're different scripts, CJK Unification should be overthrown right away. > but it is typically implemented as a typeface > difference. A character in these scripts do have > a precise set of radicals, stroke order, and > proportion. This is only the case if you regard anything other than what Japanese MoES(Min. of Education and Science) standardized as 'non-Japanese'. My grandfather, father and I(Koreans) could write a single Chinese character with different stroke counts and sometimes even differently looking radicals, but all of us know what we mean. > (Stylization is something applied > afterwards, deviating from the script norm.) Who has the final say in the script norm? I don't want Korean MoE(Min. of Education) to tell me to change the way I write some Chinese characters. My grandfather would get enraged if some ignorant beuraucrats in Seoul wanted him to change the way he writes. > It is certainly possible for some to overcome this > difference, and read their own language despite > its being in another script, but that does not > prove that they are identical scripts. Neither does it prove that they're different scripts. > The difference between fraktur and arial however, > is purely one of typeface, and seems relatively > trivial. If it's trivial, the diff. across CJK glyph variants is far far far more trivial. Jungshik Shin -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
