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

[Ayers, Mike]

> From: Marco Cimarosti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> 
> Doug Ewell wrote:
> > Peter has an excellent solution -- much better than trying to 
> > explain the 
> > term "CJK" to ordinary people -- and I plan to use the term 
> > "East Asian" in the future.
> 
> But, if by "East Asian" you mean "languages written with Han 
> ideographs",
> you fall in another pitfall, because Mongolian, Russian, 
> Vietnamese and many
> other languages spoken in East Asia aren't accounted for.

        Despite the fact that at least Vietnamese does in fact have a
(largely forgotten) Chinese derived alphabet, the point is valid.  Perhaps
"East Asian Unified" would be a better reference?


/|/|ike