Re: Non-ASCII hdrs

[Keld J|rn Simonsen <keld@xxxxxxxx>]

> Keld says:
> 	I have several ways of doing things like that up my sleeve.
> 	I have romanisation tables for CJK.
> 	I have some pattern description for CJK.
> 	I have dictionary numbers for CJK.
> 	
> 	Would any of these be better than the <charset><row><column>
> 	names?
> 	
>   Not in the general case since there are multiple languages using the
> same ideograms.  I'm not a Japanese-speaker and cannot read Kana at
> all.  I can read most Kanji because I do know Chinese.
> 
>   Erik and Mark have already commented that there is no 1-1 mapping
> between romanisation and kanji for Japanese.  This is also true for
> Chinese because of homonyms within any given dialect and the many
> mutually unintelligible dialects of Chinese.
> 

The chinese GB standard has been tabled with chinese romanisation
and the japanese with japanese romanisation.
Also JIS X0212 has been tabled with chinese romanization.

>   The several dictionaries of Chinese that I use have different dictionary
> numbers for the same character.  

We have chosen two of those dictiotionaries for the numbering
and have each of the charactes coded with those two numbers.

>   What is meant by "pattern description" ??  Do you mean radicals ?
> If so that is unlikely to work also.  Research done in Asia and at
> places like PARC have shown that the existing radical-encoding schemes
> all have many-to-one mappings in parts of their encoding tables.  That
> isn't likely to be useful.

Pattern description is not radical/stroke. We do have radical stroke too.
Patern description is based on the left downward corner of
the character, as far as I know.

keld