Re: tlug: kanji or romaji for Japanese? (was: parallel-port IDE)

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "jdh" == John De Hoog <dehoog@example.com> writes:

    jdh> Let the Japanese and Chinese use kanji, but build better
    jdh> systems for handling these languages. (And I don't mean
    jdh> Unicode.)

I hope you mean "I don't mean _merely_ Unicode."  Unicode is essential
as one relatively minor part of the whole system.  Hobson's horse.
(Of course I prefer UCS-4!  But I'm an internationalist; UCS-2 aka
Unicode is a necessary intermediary step up from the current setup.)

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