Re: [tlug] apache2 setup and japanese charset

[David Oftedal <david@example.com>]

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>Actually, Unicode has more Kanji than any other character set 
>(over 70,000), and includes all the Kanji from Japanese 
>standard character sets.
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>See http://www.unicode.org/faq/han_cjk.html#0
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>Some Japanese don't like Unicode because they hold a very rigid
>understanding about the "proper" way to write various Kanji. 
>In fact, there are many minor variations in the way characters
>are written, inside the range of Japanese usage or across Chinese,
>Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese usage. But they are all the same
>character in Unicode. Generally speaking, the solution is simply 
>to use a Japanese font for Japanese users.
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>Unicode is a good idea, but requires that the browsers be 
>relatively new (newer than 4.0). 
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>Jake
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Thanks for that info. (Though I have to apologize for a slight thread 
hijacking here.) Would that mean that the Japanese "manga" and Korean 
"manhwa" would look the same in Unicode, for instance?

That's a rather funny way of unifying three alphabets, though, just 
unifying them in an encoding and waiting for the countries to adopt it. 
Mao couldn't have done it better. :D

-Dave

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