Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think you NEED kana
for Japanese. How can you even write "desu" ("is")
without it??
Am I right in supposing that Japanese people hate
that their kana take up 3 bytes per character, while
the Roman letters I am using now take up only 1 byte
apiece? If I were Japanese, I'd say this sucks.
To give an example of a katakana word that is an
international word: "nidoran".
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---- Otto Stolz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Am 2000-07-11 um 7:02 h hat Michael Martin geschrieben:
> > English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese,
> Portuguese, and Spanish.
> > It is my understanding that all of these languages
> except Japanese can be
> > supported with the basic Latin and Latin Supplement
> subset of Unicode
> > (U+0000 ... U+00FF [...]).
>
> Latin-1 was invented to support those languages,
> but falls short of doing
> so, adequately. You will need additional characters
> from the following
> ranges:
> - Latin Extended A (e. g. U+0152 and U+0153 for
> French, U+0133 for Dutch,
> perhaps U+017F for German (if you want to cover
> Fraktur fonts, that is))
> - general punctuation (e. g. U+201E and U+201A
> for German; U+2019 and
> probably U+2010 through U+2015 for all of those
> Languages)
> - Currency Symbols (at least U+20AC, perhaps also
> U+20A3, U+20A4,
> U+20A7; note also U+00A3, U+00A5 in the Latin-1,
> and U+0192 in the
> Latin Extended-B regions, respectively)
> - Depending on the application envisaged, you may
> also wish to include
> characters from the following areas:
> - Number Forms (U+2150 through U+218F), particularly
> fractions
> - Arrows (U+2190 through 21FF); Box Drawing,
> Block Elements, and
> Geometric Shapes (U+2000 through U+25FF)
> - Mathematical Operators and Miscellaneous technical
> (U+2200 through
> U+23FF); Miscellaneous Symbols and Dingbats
> (U+200 through U+27BF)
> - Depending on the technolgy used, you may have
> to include characters
> from the following ranges:
> - Superscripts and Subscripts (U+2070 through
> U+209F)
> - Presentation Forms (e.g. ligatures U+FB00 through
> U+FB06)
> - The Replacement Character U+FFFD
> to name just a few :-)
>
> Good starting points for your consideration could
> be
> - the EES, cf. <http://www.egt.ie/standards/ees.html>,
> - Microsoft's WGL 4 character set, cf.
> <http://www.microsoft.com/typography/OTSPEC/WGL4.htm>.
>
> > The Japanese I must support is the Kanji form.
> [...] I cannot support
> > Unicode in its entirety due to memory constraints.
>
> If I am not mistaken, Kanji is ideographic characters,
> which would take
> the lion's share of memory to implement. Probably,
> you have to support
> kana (hiragana or katakana).
>
> I do not know Japanese, so others may jump in.
>
> Best wishes,
> Otto Stolz
>
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