Re: Subset of Unicode to represent Japanese Kanji?

[John Cowan]

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> "If an all kana Japanese document is read aloud, there will be places that are
> ambiguous and hard (may be impossible) to understand"
> 
> When a typical Japanese (written in kanji + kana) is read aloud, the reader
> knows where to put accent, tonation and pause, but not so with an all kana
> document.
> 
> Imagine reading an English article written all in Webster phonetics.

Fair enough: I've puzzled over fairly short texts in IPA transcription
for a bit that I would have read instantly if they had been in conventional
orthography.

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