On Saturday, March 16, 2002, at 06:08 , Kenneth Whistler wrote:
> http://www.horagai.com/www/moji/code4.htm
>
> is a rather out-of-date diatribe against Unicode, dated 1997 (but
> possibly
> touched a little since then), by Kato Koiti, a known Unicode detractor.
> It is flogging the truly dead horse of the original 10646 working draft
> architecture for Han, with separate encodings for Japanese, Chinese,
> and Korean Han characters reflecting the national standards, rather
> than unification of Han characters.
I agree Mr. Kato's web pages need more updating and he is somewhat
biased against Unicode. But simply calling him 'detractor' is wrong.
In compiling his articles he has interviewed various people on character
conding issues and his interview pages are what makes his page valuable
the most.
For instance,
http://www.horagai.com/www/moji/int/kasiwa.htm
reports that in Kashiwa, Chiba, a typical suburban city with
population about 210,000, some 21,587 people needed character that was
not listed in JIS.
> In any case, a casual browsing around on the "Moji" site doesn't turn up
> any obvious catalogue of "known characters in Japanese" required
> for such things as the spellings of "Watanabe" but which are
> not present in the Unicode Standard. Instead, there is just a
> lot of general anti-Unicode grousing.
His example does not use (in)famous Watanabe, but
http://www.horagai.com/www/moji/show.htm
is a great example of the problem that Kanji Unification has caused.
This one still holds true.
And don't forget the fact he grouse even more on JIS than Unicode. To
me all he wants is a decent character set that spells names right. His
favorite appears to be ISO-2022 but as Yet Another Perl Encoding Hacker,
ISO-2022 is pain in the arse....
U+5F48 or U+5F3E
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