On ĵaŭ, 2002-03-07 at 22:07, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 03:59:34PM -0800, Jimmy Wales wrote:
This is a neat idea, but...
So one can write &hiragana_wa; or &katakana_chi; This isn't likely to conflict with anything.
Kana Unicode table (in "English") is on http://pl.wikipedia.com/wiki.cgi?Kana
In general, why would it ever be common that one would wish to put Kana into non-Japanese wikipedias?
At least at first thought (and I'm totally open to have my mind changed!) the only place in an English or Polish wikipedia where showing Kana would make sense would be an article _about_ Kana.
Just see articles about anything Japanese on English Wikipedia. They contain Japanese names of everything.
Sure, but more often kanji than kana, so special kana markup wouldn't be that big a win. See the thread "International Upgrades"; the vague plan is to standardise the internal character set and present the wikipedias in Unicode to capable browsers. (Please comment!)
As a result, we should be able to use the customary input methods or cut-n-paste to put any characters into any of the wikis, which is certainly a lot easier than looking up entities or running text through a UTF-8-to-entities convertor (which is what I currently do).
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)