From erik@sran8.sra.co.jp Tue Feb 26 20:03:38 1991 Received: from mcsun.EU.net by dkuug.dk via EUnet with SMTP (5.64+/8+bit/IDA-1.2.8) id AA19103; Tue, 26 Feb 91 20:03:38 +0100 Received: from [133.137.4.3] by mcsun.EU.net with SMTP; id AA23748 (5.65a/CWI-2.75); Tue, 26 Feb 91 20:02:43 +0100 Received: from srava.sra.co.jp by srawgw.sra.co.jp (5.64WH/1.4) id AA11857; Tue, 26 Feb 91 14:02:59 +0900 Received: from sran8.sra.co.jp by srava.sra.co.jp (5.64b/6.4J.6-BJW) id AA16565; Tue, 26 Feb 91 14:01:07 +0900 Received: from localhost by sran8.sra.co.jp (4.0/6.4J.6-SJ) id AA19647; Tue, 26 Feb 91 13:59:33 JST Return-Path: Message-Id: <9102260459.AA19647@sran8.sra.co.jp> Reply-To: erik@sra.co.jp From: Erik M. van der Poel To: i18n@dkuug.dk, iso10646@jhuvm.bitnet, npn@sirius.att.com, wg14@dkuug.dk Subject: Re: (i18n 82) Re: (wg14 46) Re: AT&T Bell Labs wishes for shorthand character names Date: Tue, 26 Feb 91 13:59:30 +0900 Sender: erik@sran8.sra.co.jp X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 Keld Simonsen writes: > Well, what I meant is that in some Japanese Input Methods you > spell the pronunciation of a Kanji character with Latin/Hiragana > characters, and then you get a choice between the possible cases. > These cases could be numbered and then the pronunciation + number > would uniquely identify the Kanji character. Just an idea. I don't think this would be a vast improvement over your other idea (i.e. where Japanese characters are given names like ), since ordinary people still wouldn't be able to tell which character it is. Also, it is far easier to create a list of names like . :-) Erik