[bitc-dev] Unicode and bitc
bklooste at gmail.com
Sun Oct 17 04:52:36 PDT 2010
>On 17 October 2010 09:41, Ben Kloosterman <bklooste at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Pin yin is replacing written chinese in Taiwan and Hong Kong and they
>> forgetting the writing of chars. Also
>This is news to me.
>While my experience is only second hand as I don't speak Chinese
>myself I can't imagine easily replacing the ideograms with pinyin and
>preserving intelligible written text.
Note its pinyin for writing, they can still read complex chars they are just forgetting the detail required for composing them , this complexity is why mainland china simplified the characters.
>At the very least writing in pinyin will necessarily be more verbose
>as it is not possible to write a single word unambiguously in pinyin.
That is also true pinyin writing systems bring up an option list for the character , China has many cases where the same sound is many different words , and this makes pinyin unsuitable for a char representation .
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