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- From: atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Randall Atkinson)
- Subject: Re: Dumb Americans (was INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST)
- Message-ID: <C0IJF0.91z@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
- Keywords: Han Kanji Katakana Hirugana ISO10646 Unicode Codepages
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- Organization: Naval Research Laboratory, DC
- References: <1i2emiINN2td@rodan.UU.NET> <1993Jan7.065611.15193@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <1ii0n7INN6ig@life.ai.mit.edu>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 02:11:24 GMT
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- In article <1ii0n7INN6ig@life.ai.mit.edu> glenn@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu (Glenn A. Adams) writes:
-
- >I'm afraid this is incorrect. Ideographic characters in Chinese, Japanese,
- >Korean, and Vietnamese (chu+" no>m va! chu+" ha'n) *are not* equivalent
- >to words.
-
- Glenn is quite right, as usual.
-
- But to prevent misunderstanding, folks should realise that for the
- last several hundred years Vietnamese has been written using only
- romanised letters and a small number of diacritical marks (Quoc Ngu as
- distinguished from the former Chu Nom scheme). Modern Vietnamese is
- not an ideogrammatic language at all.
-
- Ran
- atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil
-