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

["James Seng/Personal" <jseng@pobox.org.sg>]

> 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
[snip]

On Windows, you install 2 IME, one for TC and the other for SC. You
toggle between these two while you key in.

> 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

They are both Traditional form one is T-T, the other is T-S. Both exist
on a TC IME.

I can understand the big problem of TC and SC domain names.

I am not too sure of the problem of "mixed TC & SC" identifiers. Please
do provide some statistic if you can. Thanks.

-James Seng