From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 12 00:19:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA21919 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 00:19:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jazz.snu.ac.kr (jazz.snu.ac.kr [147.46.59.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA21908 for ; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 00:18:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junker@jazz.snu.ac.kr) Received: (from junker@localhost) by jazz.snu.ac.kr (8.9.0/8.9.0) id QAA24465; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 16:12:39 +0900 (KST) To: Chen Hsiung Chan Cc: Jun-ichiro itojun Itoh , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: internationalization References: <199806120309.UAA11238@usr09.primenet.com> <2754.897624427@coconut.itojun.org> <19980612124245.33715@waru.life.nthu.edu.tw> From: CHOI Junho Date: 12 Jun 1998 16:12:39 +0900 In-Reply-To: Chen Hsiung Chan's message of Fri, 12 Jun 1998 12:42:45 +0800 Message-ID: Lines: 32 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.2 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chen Hsiung Chan writes: > On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 01:07:07PM +0900, Jun-ichiro itojun Itoh wrote: > [deleted] > > >The point is not a reduction in an alphabetic symbol space, as in > > >your A-F example. > > >A switch from Kanji to Kana would not damage the ability to represent > > >any Japanese words; it's a switch from an ideogrammatic to an > > >alphabetic representation. > > > > bzzzz, you are wrong. We Japnaese can't live without Kanji. > > Kanji is not an extra character sets. Kanji is mandatory > > character set for us, just like G-Z for you. Believe me, > > I speak and write Japanese every day :-) > > That's also true for Chinese. We can not live with only > phonetic symbols, whether that be bopomofo or pinyin or > anything else. That's also true for Korean. :) We are somehow different from Japanese and Chinese, because generally we are using almost only Hangul glyphs in Computers(usually chatting, mail, short articles not serious). But Hanja - aka Kanji in Japanese - is used widely for Office, Newspapers, Books, formal articles, etc. We learned Hanja in middle and high school. CJK people can't live without Hanja|Kanji|Hanzi :) -- ----Cool FreeBSD!----MSX Forever!---J.U.N.K.E.R/Beat Snatchers!---- CHOI Junho http://jazz.snu.ac.kr/~junker Distributed Computing System Lab,CS Dept.,Seoul National Univ., ROK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message