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Posted Mar 26, 2010 19:31 UTC (Fri) by spacehunt (guest, #1037)In reply to: UTF-16 by tetromino
Parent article: Resetting PHP 6
> 25 centuries of linguistic evolution separate us from Confucius. Suppose you can display all the ancient characters properly; how much would that really help a modern Chinese speaker understand the meaning of the text? Does knowing the Latin alphabet help a modern French speaker understand text written in Classical Latin?
A lot of Chinese characters in modern usage are outside of the BMP:
http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-utf8@nl.linux.org/msg00...
> Are you seriously claiming that top-to-bottom is "the clearly preferable" writing mode for modern Chinese speakers because that's what you saw being used in a restaurant menu?
It may not be "clearly preferable", but it certainly is still widely used at least in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan. Just go to any bookstore or newspaper stand in these three places and see for yourself.
Posted Mar 31, 2010 4:35 UTC (Wed)
by j16sdiz (guest, #57302)
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> It may not be "clearly preferable", but it certainly is still widely used at least in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan.
As a Chinese living in Hong Kong I can tell you this:
And yes, you can have Confucius in BMP. (Just like how you have KJV bible in latin1 -- replace those long-S
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speakers because that's what you saw being used in a restaurant menu?
Just go to any bookstore or newspaper stand in these three places and see for yourself.
Most of the Chinese characters are in BMP. Some of those outside BMP are used in Hong Kong, but they are not
as important as you think -- most of them can be replaced with something in BMP (and that's how we have been
doing this before the HKSCS standard)
with th, and stuff like that)