- From: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 18:31:51 +0100
- To: "'Chris Lilley'" <chris@w3.org>, "'Rotan Hanrahan'" <Rotan.Hanrahan@MobileAware.com>
- Cc: <www-international@w3.org>, <www-di@w3.org>, <bidi@unicode.org>
> From: www-international-request@w3.org > [mailto:www-international-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Chris Lilley > RH> For example, in english, the phrase "Home Page" fits into a few > RH> pixels high, and many more pixels wide, but how does the > sample phrase in Chinese compare? > > It would need more pixels in height to display a single > character but the whole phrase would be far fewer characters. Another kind of footnote: For Chinese, yes, although bear in mind that those characters are typically about twice the width of Latin characters. But don't assume that Japanese will be the same, since words spelt in katakana (eg. many technical or borrowed words) may be equally long or longer. For example, ho-mu peiji could well be longer than the English. RI ============ Richard Ishida W3C contact info: http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/ W3C Internationalization: http://www.w3.org/International/ Publication blog: http://people.w3.org/rishida/blog/
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