Re: [idn] Question for the Kanji & Hanja cognosentee

[liana.ydisg@juno.com]

So for Kanji shall be handled like Chinese character,
which means each shall be treated as an icon with 
itsown independency? Am I right? 

Liana

On Fri, 17 Aug 2001 17:24:10 +0900 Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org> writes:
> At 00:54 01/08/17 -0700, liana.ydisg@juno.com wrote:
> >If Hangul mapped to Latin letters like Romaji and then
> >add a number to select one Kanji among a few
> >homophones, can this be good enough to idnetify a Hanja
> >name in DNS?
> >
> >The same question goes to Bruce Thomson:
> >Can Romaji be revered back to Kanji-Kana sequece with
> >near 100% rate (with or without case ending)?
> 
> Not at all. There are some cases where you can guess,
> and there are cases where even guessing won't really
> help. Of course adding a number or so always will be
> able to do disambiguation, but one would essentially
> have to use a separate number per kanji, because in
> Japanese, new readings can be invented anytime.
> 
> Regards,  Martin.