RE: Red Hat 8 now uses UTF-8 by default for all non-CJK users

["Frank T. Pohlmann" <polar_beauty@xxxxxxxxx>]

Err, the "text" is trying to explain something
completely different. 

I was NOT talking about typefaces, scripts and
languages. I was trying to throw light on the way in
which Chinese and Japanese hanzi/Kanji are related.

I am sorry if I confused you.

-frank

 --- Kent Karlsson <kentk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Can
we please maintain the distinctions between
> 
> 1. language,
> 2. script, and
> 3. typeface 'category' or other typeface
> differences.
> 
> The text below mixes the three to an unexpectedly
> high,
> confusing, and unhelpful degree.
> 
> 	/kent k
> 
> PS
> There are many fraktur typefaces, and fraktur was
> used to
> write other languages than German (maybe in contrast
> to Gaelic
> typefaces that I think were used only for Irish
> Gaelic).
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: linux-utf8-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:linux-utf8-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf
> Of Frank T. Pohlmann
> 
> ...
> > Although Chinese hanzi and Japanese Kanji are
> > identical in shape, stroke patterns and meaning,
> and a
> > printer would be able to use almost identical
> > individual characters to print both languages in
> their
> > modern versions, a Chinese person would have
> problems
> > picking up a reading knowledge of modern Japanese
> > without a significant effort. The reverse, however
> is
> > not true. This has historical reasons, which go
> too
> > far to explain.
> > 
> > Fraktur is, in essence, just another set of glyphs
> > which can be used to write the German language.
> > 
> > No such equivalence is easily achieved between
> Chinese
> > and Japanese, unless you want to read Buddhist
> > scriptures...but that's a different, although
> > fascinating story.
> > 
> > -frank
> 
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> Archive:      http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
>  

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