Re: [tlug] i-mode i18n

[David Beutel <david_beutel2@example.com>]

Apparently TRON is opposed to Han unification, and
considers Unicode an insensitive, imperialistic
campaign by American industry.  TRON wants to include
rare kanji which only appear in some Japanese personal
names and ancient literature.  And, they argue that
Unicode is not so easy to use either, with all its
weird combined characters and such (a good point). 
For details, see:

http://tronweb.super-nova.co.jp/characcodehist.html

On the other hand, Unicode gives a rather obtuse
response:

http://www.unicode.org/unicode/faq/han_cjk.html

To me, the rare kanji seems like an unreasonable
expectation, considering that Unicode already supports
all the kanji from all the standard Japanese character
encodings.  Why not just leave the most commonly used
30 or 40 thousand kanji in Unicode and add the
extremely rare ones to a higher plane of ISO-10646?

Sadly the TRON multilingual character set was not
covered in Ken Lunde's UJIP, so I have remained
woefully ignorant of it, but then again he's an
American too and probably in on that Unicode
conspiracy. ^_-

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--- Ulrich Plate <plate@example.com> wrote:
> Jim Breen <jwb@example.com> wrote:
> 
> > >> From: Tony Laszlo <laszlo@example.com>
> > >> 
> > >> If TRON is good enough for kitchen 
> > >> appliances and satellites, why not the 
> > >> keitai?
> > 
> > TRON! I'd prefer Shit_JIS to going with TRON's
> anti-Unicode line.
> 
> Quote:
> 
> "Because native speakers of different languages
> and/or bilingual people
> can inhabit the same city, the BTRON machine must be
> capable of handling
> the character sets of all the languages of the
> world. Moreover,
> character handling on the BTRON machine must
> faithfully reflect
> character usage as it manifests itself in the
> culture of a particular
> people, no matter how large or cumbersome that
> character set might be.
> (Note: for this reason, Unicode is rejected for use
> in the TRON
> Architecture.)" (Source:
> http://tronweb.super-nova.co.jp/btron.html)
> 
> WTF? Am I missing an important syllogism behind
> those lines? Do they
> wait until Unicode manifests itself in the culture
> of a particular
> people? $deity, orthodoxy always scares the shift
> out of me. :-)
> 
> Ulrich Plate
> 

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