Re: Japanese Web pages in Unicode?

From: B $B$m!;!;!; (juuitchan@hotmail.com)
Date: Sun Jun 30 2002 - 00:46:28 EDT


>From: Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com>
>To: unicode@unicode.org
>Subject: Re: Japanese Web pages in Unicode?
>Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 12:40:40 +0100
>
>At 08:46 +0900 2002-06-29, Dan Kogai wrote:
>
>>Though I second the concepts of Unicode, I see no reasons why we
>>have to default everything to Unicode; Even Europeans and
>>Americans wouldn't buy that idea so long as ISO-8859-1 is enough.
>
>It's not enough for European use. Apart from Greek and Cyrillic,
>Latin requirements in Northern and Eastern Europe as well as Turkish
>and Maltese are not met by ISO/IEC 8859-1.
>--
>Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com

Maybe it is that Unicoded sequences are too bloody long. Like three-byte
kana? [Cartoon idea: Kimono-clad Japanese woman malleting someone (I don't
know who), while saying $B!V$+$J$,0lJ8;z;0%P%$%H!)!*$"$s$?$M!*!W(B] Three-byte
kana... in that case, why not just use romaji for storage and convert to
kana for display, or something?

I wonder how the Unified Syllabary Project is doing?...

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