Re: [idn] An ignorant question about TC<-> SC

["Chun-Hsin Wu" <wuch@gate.sinica.edu.tw>]

> Yes, TC & SC are used in some place. Many text also have mixed TC/SC.
>
> But I am saying mixing "TC" and "SC" in one single label is uncommon
> simply because it is difficult to type. You need to switch from TC IME
> to SC IME repeatively.

As I know, mixing TC and SC may be neither uncommon nor difficult.
1. Most IMEs in Traditional Windows 2000 can support TC and SC
    directly without switching, even they can let the user type in
    Japanese characters without switching. It is not unusual for one IME
    to support all, or as many as possible, Unicode characters if the system
    supports Unicode. For examples, the phonetic imput method and the
    Boshimy input method. The former is the default method in all Chinese
    systems and almost every Chinese or Taiwanese who uses computers
    knows how to use it easily. The later is widely used by many people
    who want to have high Chinese input rate, especially for professional
    users.
2. In cases of "Taiwan" and "Taipei", the TC and SC characters for the
   first character "Tai", U53F0 and U81FA, are both widely and
   interchangeably used in Taiwan. You can find examples of mixed uses
   in Chinese Web sites, such as TAIpei City Government, National
   TAIwan University, TAIwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company
   (TSMC), and so on. If we support top-level IDNs in the future, every
   domain and host below IDN.tw will have AT LEAST two records,
   one in  IDN.U53F0-wan and the other in IDN.U81FA-wan.

Chun-Hsin