On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 03:00:50PM +0100, Giskart wrote:
Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
So quick and rather simplified guide to CJK:
What is "CJK" ?
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (12 Sep 2002) [foldoc]:
CJK
<character> In {internationalisation}, a collective term for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
These languages all share the fact that their writing systems are based partly on {Han characters} (i.e., "hanzi" or "{kanji}"), which are complex enough of a system to require 16-bit {character encodings}. CJK character encodings should consist minimally of {Han characters} plus language-specific phonetic scripts such as pinyin, bopomofo, hiragana, hangul, etc.
{CJKV} is CJK plus {Vietnamese}.