Brion L. Vibber wrote:
On ven, 2002-03-08 at 09:20, Jimmy Wales wrote:
Really? There are kanji in articles about Japan?
Yeeessss.... You have such a difficult time accepting this. :)
For the matter of implementing the search engine, Latin search and Kanji search could be two different functions. Just like image search (Google style) is a third function and mathematic equations search could be a fourth kind of search, once LaTeX support is integrated in Wikipedia. To me, the kanji is just like images and I have no keyboard to input that in the search window anyway.
The English Wikipedia might implement all three searches, but the Norwegian and German ones might only need the Latin search (until a significant number of German Wikipedia pages have kanji, images or equations in them).
Perhaps this separation of implementations can help us get forward? I still have no advice for the non-Latin Wikipediae.
The English wikipedia isn't just for English monolinguals, is it?
Is this the new politically correct term for Americans? :-)