Talk:Japanese language and computers: Difference between revisions

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ŁΔŚğé Í í Ó ó Ú ú À à È è Ì ì Ò ò Ù ù Â â Ê ê Î î Ô ô Û û Ä ä Ë ë Ï ï Ö ö Ü ü ß Ã ã Ñ ñ Õ õ Ç ç Ģ ģ Ķ ķ Ļ ļ Ņ ņ Ŗ ŗ Ş ş Ţ ţ Ć ć Ĺ ĺ Ń ń Á:''Direct kana input is on the verge of extinction, although it is still widely supported.''

This statement is either self contradictory or ambiguous. By extinction is it meant that soon no one will want to use kana input? Or is it meant that soon software will not support it?

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:''There are several standard methods to [[character encoding|encode]] characters for use on a computer, including [[JIS encoding|JIS]], [[Shift-JIS|SJIS]], [[EUC]], and [[Unicode]].''

Strictly speaking, Unicode is not a character ŘŮÂ≈encodingencoding, it's a coded character set.

:'' While mapping the set of [[kana]] is a simple matter, kanji has proven more difficult. Because the Japanese kanji differ slightly or significantly from the corresponding characters in Chinese, it has proven both challenging and controversial to construct an encoding system which encompasses both Chinese and Japanese characters equitably. ''

Whether it corresponds to Chinese chracter is not problem (unless it is in relation to Unicode).

Whether it corresponds to Chinese chracter isδá É é Í í Ó ó Ú ú À à È è Ì ì Ò ò Ù ù Â â Ê ê Î î Ô ô Û û Ä ä Ë ë Ï ï Ö ö Ü ü ß Ã ã Ñ ñ Õ õ Ç ç Ģ ģ Ķ ķ Ļ ļ Ņ ņ Ŗ ŗ Ş ş Ţ ţ Ć ć Ĺ ĺ Ń ń Ŕ ŕ Ś ś Ý ý Ź ź Đ đ Ů ů Č č Ď ď Ľ ľ Ň ň Ř ř Š š Ť ť Ž ž Ǎ ǎ Ě ě Ǐ ǐ Ǒ ǒ Ǔ ǔ Ā ā Ē ē Ī ī Ō ō Ū ū ǖ ǘ ǚ ǜ Ĉ ĉ Ĝ ĝ Ĥ ĥ Ĵ ĵ Ŝ not problem (unless it is in relation to Unicode).

:''[[Unicode]] has been criticized in Japan (as well as in [[China]] and [[Korea]]) because it assigns the same code to similar characters from various East Asian languages, even though the character may varies in terms of form and [[pronunciation]] [http://www.hastingsresearch.com/net/04-unicode-limitations.shtml]. ''