Re: Term Asian is not used properly on Computers and NET

[Peter_Constable]

On 05/29/2001 05:12:39 PM "N.R.Liwal" wrote:

>I think Calling
>
>CJK  specifically Asian is not appropriate nor helpful, because Asia is
big
>
>and  have hundreds of languages and scripts, either all Asian Script i.e.
>
>Arabic,  Hebrew,�Devanagri, Bengali, Thai and etc.......... should be
called
>Asian
>or a more appropriate name should be give to Chiness / Japanese and
Korean
>
>or  other scripts of that region.

This is certainly a valid point. "Far East" or "East Asian" might be more
appropriate for CJK.



- Peter


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