| Benjamin Geer on 15 Nov 2000 21:36:14 -0000 |
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| Re: <nettime> Asia and domain names, etc. (@) |
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 03:34:05AM +0900, [email protected] wrote: > The question of 'chinese' is much more complicated, and certainly > chauvinistic. [...] In all cases they are double-byte characters, > and need to be encoded first to be sent over the single-byte (roman > character) based networks of the 'wired' network world. The encoding > systems are also diverse. (There are debates within each of these > nations about uniform encoding, much less the kind of problems that > show up when databasing across cultures) Of course the Japanese > encoding methods can not be imposed upon the Koreans, PRC and ROC > and more than the PRC's abbreviated characters can be used in > Taiwan, Korea and Japan. I would hope that any international solution would involve Unicode (http://www.unicode.org), which, after all, follows an international standard, ISO 10646 (http://anubis.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/), and neatly supports all the languages you mention. It seems to be nearly universally supported now on computer systems made in the West; I'd be interested to know to what extent it's been adopted in Asia. -- Benjamin Geer http://www.btinternet.com/~amisuk/bg # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [email protected] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]