Language Identifier List Comments, updated

Tex Texin tex at xencraft.com
Mon Dec 27 12:47:11 CET 2004



Ivan Herman wrote:

> I think Chinese is unique. The difference in the simplified and traditional is essential
> and created a 'cut' in chinese writing which is much more important than for any other
> scripts (afaik).

I don't see why it would be more essential to Chinese than an Azerbaijani
wanting to distinguish arabic vs cyrillic vs latin... In some ways it could be
argued to be less essential, since between Simplified and Traditional, some of
the characters are the same, or similar...



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