- From: Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 19:05:06 +0900
Le 4 janv. 2007 ? 18:41, Henri Sivonen a ?crit :
> It doesn't matter much. It is rather clear that the ruby markup is
> intended for a particular Chinese and Japanese typographical
> device. You'd use the markup whenever you want to use that
> typographical device. Bothering authors with what they profoundly
> mean when they use the typographical device isn't particularly
> helpful.
Furigana is an annotation system.
And essential for learning the language at school.
Or read the kanjis that are too difficult to be known when browsing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furigana
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_characters
http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/ruby/
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1935/
http://www.japanesejapanese.com/index.php/2006/01/30/pauls-cool-ruby-
javascript/
These are examples
http://www.city.motosu.lg.jp/dbps_data/_material_/IMAGE/
SYOUKOU_KANKOU/USUZUMI/furigana.gif
http://www.sv15.com/img/furigana.jpg
http://wakan.manga.cz/img/shotbig/shot3.png
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