Re: Re: Hindi and Software

[thaths@xxxxxxxxx (Sudhakar Chandra)]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 10:52:04AM +0530, did Biju Chacko write:
> In actual fact there is no language which can be called Chinese. There are
> numerous languages spoken in China, the most popular being Mandarin and
> Cantonese. However, they share a common script. 

Great post, Biju.  But just one lil nitpick.  There are also a couple of
different scripts: Traditional (used in Taiwan and Hong Kong) and
Simplified (used in mainland china).

> This is both an advantage and a disadvantage. On one hand, you can create apps
> with out worrying about the language of the user. On the other, there are
> something like 5000 different ideograms to manage.

Japanese has an interesting script.  There are actually three different
types of letters: katakana (the phonetic letters), hirangana (used to
represent foreign words in japanese) and kanji (the ideograms).

Thaths
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