Re: Term Asian is not used properly on Computers and NET

From: Peter_Constable@sil.org
Date: Tue May 29 2001 - 09:56:48 EDT


On 05/29/2001 05:12:39 PM "N.R.Liwal" wrote:

>I think Calling
>
>CJK specifically Asian is not appropriate nor helpful, because Asia is
big
>
>and have hundreds of languages and scripts, either all Asian Script i.e.
>
>Arabic, Hebrew, Devanagri, Bengali, Thai and etc.......... should be
called
>Asian
>or a more appropriate name should be give to Chiness / Japanese and
Korean
>
>or other scripts of that region.

This is certainly a valid point. "Far East" or "East Asian" might be more
appropriate for CJK.

- Peter

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