From: Evan Martin <martine@...>
Date: 2002-06-28T03:48:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Andy Roonie is perhaps excessively optimistic

On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 08:46:28PM +0900, Curt Sampson wrote:
> > (5) Japanese, as you probably know, has the rich
> > choice of kanji characters and the two kana alphabets,
> >     but no ligatures.
> 
> Since I know a little bit of Japanese, I'd be particularly interested
> in what you think the Unicode problems are in relation to Japanese.

This thread has gone horribly OT, and I suggest the first poster quoted
here consult a Unicode FAQ, as many of his concerns have already been
addressed elsewhere.

As for Japanese-specific problems, that is the one place the consortium
may have messed up in unifying CJK kanji; see
http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ if you want the gory details.

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      Evan Martin
martine@cs.washington.edu
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