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From: craig@dcl-cs.UUCP (Craig Wylie)
Newsgroups: net.internat
Subject: Re: Int'l character sets (Re: Are the funny letters really needed?)
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Date: Wed, 26-Feb-86 08:11:33 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 26 08:11:33 1986
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Reply-To: craig@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Craig Wylie)
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>> And of course it's a very big tail wagging a small dog. The tail is the
>> vast majority of the people in the world who don't have English as their
>> native language and the dog is those who do.
>
>No, there are many dogs, and the Chinese one is not only bigger than the
>Swedish one, it's bigger than the English-speaking one.  Chinese won't even
>fit into an 8-bit character set, and lord only knows *how* you sort Chinese
>strings!  ...

I have seen some English Chinese dictionaries that use the number of strokes
in the character to sort.

Currently trying to find a Chinese Researcher to ask her personally.

Craig.

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