From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-01-16T13:31:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Quick question for Japanese speaker

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Simon Cozens" <simon@simon-cozens.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 6:40 PM
Subject: Re: Quick question for Japanese speaker


> Joey Gibson <joey@joeygibson.com> writes:
> > If someone can tell me what the kanji for Ruby is
> 
> It's this one: http://ddtm.simon-cozens.org/ruby.png
> "kougyoku" is the pronounciation - "kurenai" and "tama" are the
> individual characters.

Oh, thanks. That's better than the one I was 
working from.

But Yuki (aka "snow") tells me that Japanese people 
are more likely to associate that with a certain
kind of apple, and that perhaps I should use the
katakana instead.

Which is an interesting puzzle... because I was
only using it as artwork, and the kanji does "look"
better than the kana, to my eyes.

And it is not "really" for Japanese people, but 
used because sometimes Americans think Japanese
looks cool (just as someone once told me that 
Japanese think that the Latin alphabet is cool
and artistic-looking).

<sigh> Maybe I'll use both.

Thanks all!

Hal