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- From: melby@dove.yk.fujitsu.co.jp (John B. Melby)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
- Subject: Re: Dumb Americans (was INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST)
- Message-ID: <MELBY.93Jan12104657@dove.yk.fujitsu.co.jp>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 10:46:57 GMT
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- In-reply-to: terry@cs.weber.edu's message of 11 Jan 93 19:37:10 GMT
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- >Consider the worst case scenerio: a Japanese text telling how to write
- >Chinese characters.
-
- I don't think this can be considered a worst case scenario. The style
- differences we are looking at between Japanese and Chinese can probably
- be summarized as follows:
-
- Chinese Ming: slender strokes, pronounced hooks
- Japanese Ming: strokes slightly thicker, hooks not as pronounced
- Chinese Gothic: stroke width depends on the spacing of the strokes
- Japanese Gothic: stroke width is generally constant
-
- There may very well be some characters that share a single Unicode point
- between Chinese and Japanese but have different forms that are not
- completely interchangeable with forms that differ only in a stylistic
- manner. (I assume that Mr. Ohta knows of many such examples, but I
- have yet to see a concrete example posted here.)
-
- Besides, in the example above, each character would be graphically
- represented to show the stroke order. (The use of a printed character
- would be quite misleading, since the printed version of a character often
- seems to have more strokes than the handwritten version.)
-
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- John B. Melby
- Fujitsu Limited, Yokohama
- melby@yk.fujitsu.co.jp
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