On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote:
> > I have no bias on the subject mostly because I have no opinion on the
> > subject. :-) I don't claim to know what the general opinion in Japan
> > about Unicode or Han unification is (or would be).
>
> Sophism. For example, you may be interested in Unicode and you may hope
> Unicode to be popular as soon as possible. You may not care about native
> Japanese speakers' interest.
Oh, I have plenty of biases on the subject of Unicode in general. Where I
*don't* have any particular opinion, and thus no bias, is on the more
specific question of whether Han unification was done too enthusiastically
to make the result acceptable for widespread use in Japan.
> How do you suspect about my opinion? I said that I hopes Unicode to
> be usable for native Japanese people...
It's pretty clear that you have strong opinions about the specific issue I
identify above -- whether Han unification was too enthusiastic. Every
time the discussion even comes near this topic, you explain at length how
the current state of things is utterly unacceptable to you, and how you
think it will be unacceptable to most Japanese.
> What's wrong about this position? What bias do you think?
There is nothing wrong with this position, but your own strong opinions
make you a rather biased source for information on how Japanese in general
would react to today's Unicode.
My original posting was directed not at you, but at others in the list,
who seemed to be assuming that you represented a consensus of Japanese
opinion. That could be true, but we should not just assume so.
If I tell you that I despise Microsoft Windows and generally refuse to use
it, you can believe that. If I then tell you that I think most Canadians
feel the same way, you would be well advised to seek confirmation from
other sources before accepting this. Even if I am trying hard to report
the exact truth, my own anti-Microsoft bias makes my reporting unreliable;
I may be seeing what I want to see.
Henry Spencer
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