Hi,
At Tue, 6 Feb 2001 12:26:06 +0100 ,
Karlsson Kent - keka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Chinese text _must_ be displayed with Chinese font. Japanese text
> > _must_ be displayed with Japanese font.
>
> This is not undisputed. Quotes of Chinese text in an otherwise
> Japanese text are often, I'm told, all set in a Japanese font.
There are about 120,000,000 Japanese people. It is natural a few of
them have a bad habit to do so. At least, such a habit is never allowed
for textbook on Chinese language for Japanese students. Or, do you think
it is natural that Unicode cannot be used for such purposes?
Who told you such a thing?
> > which should be the
> > default font, Chinese or Japanese, for "world version" OSes?
>
> This is like asking "Which should be the default font: one that covers
> MES-2 only" (MES-2 is a subset of 10646, covering many, but not all,
> Latin letters), "or should we use a Devanagari one?".
A Unicode font which include both of Latin and Devanagari.
It is possible because codepoints for Latin and Devanagari don't
conflict each other. On the other hand, CJK variants conflict.
I cannot believe you are anxious about such a thing.
> Or like asking
> "which should be the default (initial) keyboard, a Swedish one, or a Persian
> one?". If you say "an English one", I'd object, since my keyboard is a
> Swedish one, and does not fit well with an English or US key mapping.
Now we are talking about unified character set. Unicode cannot solve
keyboard problem.
If you are really interested in keyboard configuration in "world version"
OS, I have some ideas. Do you really want to talk about this? I'd like
to concentrate on Unicode now.
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