Dan Kogai said: > Sorry. I am just a network consultant by trade (and Just Another Perl > Encode Hacker by accident :) and I know of these classical writing no > more than you do. I am just repeating what those who KNOW have told me.
Or those who *CLAIM* to know. > If you can grok Japanese, you got to see 'Horagai' at > > http://www.horagai.com/www/moji/moji000.htm http://www.horagai.com/www/moji/code4.htm is a rather out-of-date diatribe against Unicode, dated 1997 (but possibly touched a little since then), by Kato Koiti, a known Unicode detractor. It is flogging the truly dead horse of the original 10646 working draft architecture for Han, with separate encodings for Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Han characters reflecting the national standards, rather than unification of Han characters. To show you how up-to-date this site is in its understanding of Unicode, the Moji "hot list" page: http://www.horagai.com/www/moji/mojihot.htm has a link for the "Unicode Home Page" to www.stonehand.com. That is at least 5 years dead! > > This is the most comprehensive page on Japanese encoding issues that I > know. The author of this page has also published a book called > 'Denno-Shakai-No-Nihongo' (The Japanese Language in Computer Society; > ISBN4-16-660094-X) based upon these web pages. > > >http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASIN/416660094X/ref=sr_aps_d_1_3/249-0528792-3531539 Or see: http://www.horagai.com/www/salon/works/denno.htm but this doesn't look too promising as anything up-to-date regarding Unicode and Japanese characters. In any case, a casual browsing around on the "Moji" site doesn't turn up any obvious catalogue of "known characters in Japanese" required for such things as the spellings of "Watanabe" but which are not present in the Unicode Standard. Instead, there is just a lot of general anti-Unicode grousing. --Ken
