Re: [idn] Summary of TS-SC discussion

["James Seng/Personal" <James@Seng.cc>]

Jack,

I am not saying TC-SC is like upper/lower case. Please read my mail
again.

I am saying if "A" is TC and "a" is SC then ... (I should have use a
real chinese characters here but I thought "A" and "a" would be easiler
to explain)

And I stand correct in that TC-SC is a n*2 to n*4 problem, not a 2^n
problem. This is something which we discussed before privately and both
agreed.

-James Seng

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jack Halpern" <jack@kanji.org>
To: "James Seng/Personal" <James@seng.cc>
Cc: "tsenglm@è¨^網中å¿f.中大.tw" <tsenglm@cc.ncu.edu.tw>;
<idn@ops.ietf.org>; "Paul Hoffman / IMC" <phoffman@imc.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 12:12 PM
Subject: Re: [idn] Summary of TS-SC discussion


> Greetings
>
> I
>  >But because TC-SC also have is Traditional-Traditional,
>  >Traditional-Simplified, Simplified-Traditional and
Simplified-Simplified
>  >variant, this gives us a max of n*4 combination, one for each.
("Taiwan"
>  >in your example falls into the T-T and T-S variant).
>  >
>  >This is why TC/SC is not really n^2 combination. Opertionally, it is
>  >closely to n*2 to n*4 from experience.
>
> This way of thinking is based on a misunderstanding of the exact
meanings
> what SC and TC. The simplified form of TAI in Taiwan is indeed an SC
form,
> but **it is also a TC form** in the sense that it is used in Taiwan --
in fact,
> it is the preferred form. Also note, as well known, that form
identical in SC
> and TC are very common. In the case of TAI, we are talking about TC
> variants (see details in my paper on TC vartiants at
> http://www.cjk.org/cjk/reference/tcvar.htm ).
>
>
> Comparing "ABC" vs. "abc" to SC vs TC is a flase analogy at best and
does not take
> the true nature of the Chinese script into account.
>
>
>  >-James Seng
>  >
>  >
>
>
> Regards, Jack Halpern
> President, The CJK Dictionary Institute, Inc.
>         http://www.cjk.org Phone: +81-48-473-3508
>
>