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By author: Ulrich Drepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In newsgroup: linux.utf8
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> That's no valid comparison.
>
> The question is whether I, who has almost no knowledge of Kanji and
> Chinese, would be able to recognize the similarities easier than it is
> possible for you to decipher fraktur.
>
> I can read and write fraktur without any problems even though I had no
> formal education in doing this. It's something you pick up. In the
> same way a C or J or K speaker will perhaps pick up some knowledge which
> makes it easy/easier to read the [JK], [CK], or [CJ] glyphs
> respectively. I cannot say whether this is true or not.
>
As a beginning Japanese language student, I think I'm roughly in your
target group here. The answer, for me, is that I can read Kanji in a
Chinese font without too much problems, *except* for certain
characters, which are a bit like "I don't know if X is supposed to be
equivalent to Y" -- unlike the Latin alphabet, you can't use the
process of elimination. U+9234 is a good example of that; the lower
right quadrant looks quite different (and there is compatibility
character, U+F9B1, which is supposed to be Korean but looks equivalent
to Japanese to me.) I have asked before and been informed people more
proficient in Japanese have no problem recognizing the characters as
variants, though.
-hpa
P.S. Anyone happens to know what the thing the Unihan database calls
the "Z-Variant" is supposed to be? U+9234 and U+F9B1 are supposed to
be Z-Variants, but I can't find any explanation of the term
anywhere... see:
http://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=9234&useutf8=true
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