Re: The translation of ~r (Was: English editing)

> Yes, i'm glad you brought this up, since i wondered about that too. I left the translation as Hanzi for now, but that's really not a translation, it's more of a transliteration of the Chinese (and should probably have a lowercase H). I would prefer to change it.

The reason I used Hanzi was because the term ‘Kanji’ shows up several times in JLReq. There are a lot of Japanese transliterations in the document as well, such as hanmen (版面), etc.

> The standard uses Han character and Han ideographic character most of the time.
> 
> I'm inclined to use 'Han character'.  There may be instances where what is meant is full-width character, if punctuation are to be included. I haven't checked for those instances yet.

I would prefer Han character now. Usually, when we say 漢字 orally or literally, it does not include punctuation, only the characters themselves.

Sincerely,
Chen Yijun (@ethantw)


> Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org> 於 2015年3月29日 18:07 寫道：
> 
> On 28/03/2015 14:30, Yijun Chen wrote:
>> In one of the bi-weekly meetings of html-zh-ig, we discussed about the
>> translation of 漢字. Some people suggest Hanzi due to its conciseness,
>> others prefer Chinese Characters for the preciseness. I’m thinking to
>> call it Chinese Characters in its first appearance and state as such,
>> ‘hereinafter referred to as Hanzi’. Would you care to give some advice?
> 
> Yes, i'm glad you brought this up, since i wondered about that too. I left the translation as Hanzi for now, but that's really not a translation, it's more of a transliteration of the Chinese (and should probably have a lowercase H). I would prefer to change it.
> 
> The Unicode Standard says:
> 
> 
> "Terminology. Several standard romanizations of the term used to refer to East Asian ideographic characters are commonly used. They include
> hànzì (Chinese), kanzi (Japanese), kanji (colloquial Japanese), hanja (Korean), and Chữhán (Vietnamese). The standard English translations for these terms are interchangeable: Han character, Han ideographic character, East Asian ideographic character, or CJK ideographic character. For clarity, the Unicode Standard uses some subset of the English terms when referring to these characters."
> 
> 
> The standard uses Han character and Han ideographic character most of the time.
> 
> I'm inclined to use 'Han character'.  There may be instances where what is meant is full-width character, if punctuation are to be included. I haven't checked for those instances yet.
> 
> does that help?
> ri
> 
>

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