>Can we please maintain the distinctions between >1. language, >2. script, and >3. typeface 'category' or other typeface differences.
(Im assuming you mean that "script" is lexical, "language" is semantic, and "typeface" is stylistic) Thats really the question: Is the difference between Hanzi and Kanji more one of typeface or of script. I would argue that it is a real script difference, but it is typically implemented as a typeface difference. A character in these scripts do have a precise set of radicals, stroke order, and proportion. (Stylization is something applied afterwards, deviating from the script norm.) For example if you wanted to create a brush-stroked looking typeface for all CJK, you would have to create multiple glyphs for some unicode codepoints in order to fullfill the requirements for various language scripts. Moreso if proportion is considered as well as stroke order. It is certainly possible for some to overcome this difference, and read their own language despite its being in another script, but that does not prove that they are identical scripts. The difference between fraktur and arial however, is purely one of typeface, and seems relatively trivial. Perhaps given more time it could have evolved into a different script... -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
