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- From: mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
- Subject: Re: Dumb Americans (was INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST)
- Keywords: ISO10646 Unicode
- Message-ID: <2605@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 16:05:25 GMT
- References: <8490@charon.cwi.nl> <1hvu79INN4qf@rodan.UU.NET> <1i0oj2INNp4v@life.ai.mit.edu> <1i13rrINNars@rodan.UU.NET> <1993Jan1.163927.20277@prl.dec.com>
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- In article <1993Jan1.163927.20277@prl.dec.com>
- boyd@prl.dec.com (Boyd Roberts) writes:
-
- >In Chinese it would be natural if `sort' could sort on stroke count.
- >Chinese dictionaries have indexes based on stroke count, as there is
- >really no other way of locating a glyph whose reading (pronounciation)
- >you do not know.
- >
- >In Japanese the problem is similar, but you have the kana which helps.
-
- Completely wrong.
-
- That Chinese-Japanese dictioary have several indexes one of which is
- based on stroke count does not mean stroke count sorting is natural.
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- For example, the first half of JIS X 0208 is sorted by main (whatever
- main means) pronounciation of each character and the rest is sorted
- first by radicals and then by stroke count.
-
- In Japanese, the only natural sorting is on pronouciation, whose
- information is missing from character code. Otherwise, any sorting
- is almost as good as other sorting.
-
- Masataka Ohta
-