Re: i18n; wide characters; Guile

Jim Blandy (jimb@red-bean.com)
Sun, 19 Oct 1997 01:13:33 -0400

>Is it such simple? I don't know about Taiwanese and Chinese, but
>in japanese, we did simplifications on some characters and it's
>not one-to-one mapping: sometimes several different characters
>are mapped onto one simplified character. And occasionary people
>need to use old-style characters, too, so JIS code included both
>old-style and new style characters.

You're right, I am sure my post over-simplified the simplification
issue. (!!)

Could you tell me more about the circumstances in which people want to
use old-style characters?