Jean-Michel Hiver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Do Chinese use Katakana? Does such encoding make > > sense? > > Not as far as I know. Hiragana / Katakana is exclusively a Japanese > thing ain't it?
In Chinese script Hiragana and Katakana are not used. While it is a exclusively Japanese [writing] thing, some Chinese character encodings like Big5 and GB-2312 include Hiragana and Katakana. Writing systems and national encodings are related but a different thing. E.g. all [real] Japanese encodings include the cyrillic alphabet, which is defintely not used in [normal] Japanese writing. Andreas Marcel
