Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote:
>
> At Mon, 02 Apr 2001 23:23:16 -0400,
> Thomas Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I doubt you intended it that way, but when you said "non-CJK people",
> > I first thought of the Zhuang and other "non-CJK" minority ethnicities
> > within the borders of the PRC that do/did use Han characters to write
> > their languages. I suspect they'd use zh_CN style fonts.
>
> Ah, yes, my terminology is not accurate. There are many "Chinese
> community" all around the world. I have talked with a Singapore
> person by IRC and he said that he uses traditional Chinese and Big5.
That is news to me--all other sources seem to point at Singapore using
simplified characters[1] and EUC-CN, e.g., p. 102 of Ken Lunde's 1999
book.
[1] Following mainland China's simplifications, although there was a
brief period in the early 1970's when there were a few (accidental)
differences.
> I imagine such Chinese communities use either of zh_CN, zh_TW, or
> zh_HK (zh_HK seems to very similar to zh_TW) to express their native
> language.
Yes, for a long time, Hong Kong has just used the zh_TW version of
products, since they both use traditional characters, but now that
Hong Kong has added the HKSCS extension to Big5, a distinction must
be made. (It has to be made anyway, since currency and some other
settings are different.)
Thomas Chan
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