On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 01:40:17PM -0500, Thomas Chan wrote:
> The faction defending Han Unification should really be doing more arguing
> why it is the "right" thing technically, irregardless of whether or not
> Chinese support it.
The problem is it isn't really a technical issue. The computer doesn't
care whether Japanese and Chinese are unified, or whether simplified
Chinese and traditional Chinese are unified. It just maps code values
to glyphs. "A language is a dialect with an army" comes to mind - I'm
sure that some scripts would have been disunified if they had a large
number of users (the different runic or old italic scripts, or coptic/greek),
and I'm sure that others would have been unified if they weren't huge
modern scripts (i.e. cryllic/greek/latin).
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