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

[Ayers, Mike]

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> For the Han characters, I have found in the past that people 
> whose native 
> language does not use these characters usually refer to them 
> as "Chinese."  
> Obviously (to us anyway), calling them "Chinese characters" 
> is not adequate, 
> so we search for alternatives.

        Consider:

        "Hanzi" -> "Chinese characters"
        "Kanji" -> "Chinese characters"
        "Hanja" -> "Chinese characters"

        ...so it would seem that everyone but us agrees on what to call 'em.


/|/|ike

P.S.  While "Han" and "Chinese" are not interchangeable when referring to
people (i.e. the Han people are only a majority subset of the Chinese
people), in this case the difference is virtually indistinguishable, so I
use them interchangeably.