Jungshik Shin wrote on 2001-03-30 16:59 UTC:
> Could you stop using East Asian people or CJK people when you have
> to use just Japanese? Koreans do NOT care about what you(and some
> Japanese) care so much about (maybe because Han characters are always
> considered *foreign* to Koreans. They're Chinese not Korean). And Chinese
> don't seem to either (maybe for the opposite reason. I haven't
> seen any Chinese complaining about CJK unification on the public forum
> like this, let alone Korean.
One might perhaps go even further and ask for the use of the term
"Japanese Geek" instead of "East Asian people" or "CJK people" or
"Japanese". I checked various of the "Japanese Geek" claims about
unreadable characters presented here in the past with local
computer-literate Japanese students of various backgrounds in Cambridge,
and they consistently considered the objections against CJK unification
as somewhat narrow-minded specialist concerns that can only be
demonstrated -- if at all -- on a small number of glyphs with certain
font-style combinations. [The term "Geek" was introduced by a Japanese
PhD student in this context by the way, not by myself.]
But then, we had this discussion here around half a dozen times before
and I'm really not interested in reawakening it or even expecting to
learn anything fundamentally new this time.
Markus
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