> From: Robert A. Rosenberg [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 11:44 AM
>
> At 04:41 AM 07/12/2000 -0800, Otto Stolz wrote:
> >If I am not mistaken, Kanji is ideographic characters, which
> would take
> >the lion's share of memory to implement. Probably, you have
> to support
> >kana (hiragana or katakana).
> >
> >I do not know Japanese, so others may jump in.
>
>
> In case of major memory constraint, go for Romanjii [sp?] (which is
> Japanese written in Latin Letters and which the name of the
> writing systems
> are examples <g>). That is what we often see Japanese written
> as here in
> the US. It is the text converted phonetically and needs some
> accents but
> nothing more. For another example with accents, check out the
> name of the
> popular children's show "Pocket Monsters" AKA Pok�mon.
The use of the "�" in "Pok�mon" is just marketing, since there is no
corresponding Japanese vowel. Kana would take little extra memory, and
would be much more correct (I'm not certain, but I suspect that Japanese do
not learn to read Romaji as Japanese words, using them only for foreign
words which katakana fits very poorly (ABC, etc.).
/|/|ike
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