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- From: boyd@prl.dec.com (Boyd Roberts)
- Subject: Re: Dumb Americans (was INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.094119.6795@prl.dec.com>
- Keywords: Han Kanji Katakana Hirugana ISO10646 Unicode Codepages
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 09:41:19 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan7.065611.15193@fcom.cc.utah.edu>, terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
- >
- > Again, sorting can not be safely tied to character set lexical order for
- > all languages. I disagree with Boyd here. Localization with Unicode is
- > a piece of cake. Unicode allows it to be entirely data driven, with no
- > locale-specific algorithms or hard-coded data.
- >
-
- Maybe you should check your attributions, but I have never advocated
- that the code values can be used to do lexical sorting in the general
- case -- far from it. Your above paragraph contains a contradiction
- as I read it.
-
- Tell me how I sort on stroke count in Unicode without ``locale-specific
- algorithms or hard-coded data''?
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- Re: `san'
-
- It can be used on either the family name of the first name.
- This assertion is based on current common practice in Japan.
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- If you knew Ohta-san reasonably well (ie. friend or colleague)
- and were contemporaries you could use `kun' instead of `san'.
-
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- Boyd Roberts boyd@prl.dec.com
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- ``When the going gets wierd, the weird turn pro...''
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