[bitc-dev] Unicode and bitc

[Michal Suchanek]

On 17 October 2010 13:52, Ben Kloosterman <bklooste at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>  >On 17 October 2010 09:41, Ben Kloosterman <bklooste at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >> Pin yin is replacing written chinese in Taiwan and Hong Kong and they
>  >are
>  >> forgetting the writing of chars. Also
>  >
>  >This is news to me.
>  >
>  >While my experience is only second hand as I don't speak Chinese
>  >myself I can't imagine easily replacing the ideograms with pinyin and
>  >preserving intelligible written text.
>
> Note its pinyin for writing, they can still read complex chars they are just forgetting the detail required for composing them , this complexity is why mainland china simplified the characters.

That should not affect electronic text much as there are multiple
helpful IMs for writing the characters.

Thanks

Michal