> From: Marco Cimarosti [mailto:marco.cimarosti@essetre.it]
>
> Doug Ewell wrote:
> > Peter has an excellent solution -- much better than trying to
> > explain the
> > term "CJK" to ordinary people -- and I plan to use the term
> > "East Asian" in the future.
>
> But, if by "East Asian" you mean "languages written with Han
> ideographs",
> you fall in another pitfall, because Mongolian, Russian,
> Vietnamese and many
> other languages spoken in East Asia aren't accounted for.
Despite the fact that at least Vietnamese does in fact have a
(largely forgotten) Chinese derived alphabet, the point is valid. Perhaps
"East Asian Unified" would be a better reference?
/|/|ike
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