Re: Japanese scripts?

From: Michael \(michka\) Kaplan (michka@trigeminal.com)
Date: Fri Oct 27 2000 - 19:53:32 EDT


Hello Shawn,

Only if you are willing to completely ignore Kanji (translation: NO, it
cannot). It would be roughly equivalent from a "size" perspective of asking
whether English could be represented if you skipped all the letters C
through X. :-(

michka

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Magda Danish (Unicode)" <v-magdad@microsoft.com>
To: "Unicode List" <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 4:09 PM
Subject: FW: Japanese scripts?

>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shawn Halwes [mailto:shalwes@pe-i.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 2:50 PM
> To: info@unicode.org
> Subject: Japanese scripts?
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>
> Can Japanese be effectively represented with only the Hiragana, and
Katakana
> scripts?
>
> Thanks,
> Shawn Halwes
>
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