- From: Kang-Hao (Kenny) Lu <kennyluck@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 13:42:32 +0900
- To: Koji Ishii <kojiishi@gluesoft.co.jp>
- CC: WWW Style <www-style@w3.org>, WWW International <www-international@w3.org>
> In Chinese, Yi, and Hangul, a character represents a syllable as far as I understand, but in Japanese, Kanji characters could have more than one syllable, and also there are cases where multiple characters represent single syllable (like Kana + prolonged sound mark). > > Although this part is not normative, it looks like we should replace "syllable" with "grapheme cluster". > > Please let me know if this change can be incorrect to any other writing systems listed here than Japanese. The situation is similar for Chinese as far as I can tell. Speaking about this, this is editorial but the last time I read the spec, I got a little bit perplexed about the definition of "word". Is there a plan to briefly mention what a "word" is in the introduction section? Or perhaps there should be a glossary that puts "word" and "grapheme cluster" together? I doubt that there would be a consistent and precise definition throughout the spec but a brief and non-normative introduction seems helpful. Cheers, Kenny
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