Re: Unicode. Perl does the right thing?

2002-10-25 Thread Autrijus Tang
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 02:53:43PM +0900, Dan Kogai wrote: > use charanames ":zh"; > print "\N{sheng1}"; 17 characters from the Big5 range has the 'sheng1' pronounciation; no doubt many more in the Unihan range. This "internal code of Han characters" has been discussed in depth here by Mr Zhu Ban

Re: Unicode. Perl does the right thing?

2002-10-25 Thread Jungshik Shin
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Autrijus Tang wrote: > On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 02:53:43PM +0900, Dan Kogai wrote: > > use charanames ":zh"; > > print "\N{sheng1}"; > > 17 characters from the Big5 range has the 'sheng1' pronounciation; > no doubt many more in the Unihan range. > > use charanames ":zh"; >

How to name CJK ideographs

2002-10-25 Thread Dan Kogai
On Saturday, Oct 26, 2002, at 03:55 Asia/Tokyo, Jungshik Shin wrote: Another possibility is 'meaning-pronunciation' index. I believe this is one of a few ways to refer to CJK characters (say, over the phone) in all CJK countries. However, to do this, we need much more raw data (more or less lik

Re: How to name CJK ideographs

2002-10-25 Thread Jungshik Shin
On Sat, 26 Oct 2002, Dan Kogai wrote: > On Saturday, Oct 26, 2002, at 03:55 Asia/Tokyo, Jungshik Shin wrote: > > Another possibility is 'meaning-pronunciation' index. I believe > > this is one of a few ways to refer to CJK characters (say, over the > > phone) > > in all CJK countries. However

Re: Unicode. Perl does the right thing?

2002-10-25 Thread Edward Cherlin
As noted below, a uniform alternate naming scheme for CJK characters requires a large table, nearly a dictionary. If we accept the size, Jungshik is right that there is a way to do it. In each of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. characters in common use can be disambiguated by giving both the pro