Re: name of the japanese script

At 19:20 07/05/16, Felix Sasaki wrote:
>
>Hi Eric,
>
>Eric Prud'hommeaux wrote:

>>Would something from Byzantine Musical
>> Symbols speak to a wider audience?

I strongly doubt that.

>If you need script identifiers, look first at http://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry . You will find:
>%%
>Type: script
>Subtag: Jpan
>Description: Japanese (alias for Han + Hiragana + Katakana)
>Added: 2006-07-21

Well, yes, but that's just a convenience code. There is inherently
no single Japanese script. The Japanese *writing system* is a mixture
of Han (called Kanji in Japanese), Hiragana, and Katakana.

As the goal of the example is to show sort order, I'd just
replace "http://script.example/" with "http://example.org/"
throughout and be done with it. [As far as I understand,
there is no reserved TLD "example", so the later is better
anyway (see http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2606.txt).]

Another way to improve the example is to use another Cyrillic
word, one that starts with a letter that's not similar to any
of the Latin letters. That will help novice readers a lot.

Regards,    Martin.


#-#-#  Martin J. Du"rst, Assoc. Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University
#-#-#  http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp       mailto:duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp

Received on Sunday, 20 May 2007 05:49:04 UTC