Re: Thai issue for 2.0 timeframe
Philip Chee <[email protected]> Wed, 19 Apr 2006 19:54:46 +0800
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On 19 Apr 2006 01:53:31 -0700, Gen Kanai wrote: > Thai is not the only Asian language without spaces between words > (Japanese and Chinese are both the same in that regard, plus other > Asian languages I am sure.) Thai has different problems. In Chinese each ideograph is a separate word (let's ignore compounds for the moment). In Japanese you can look at the state change from kana to kanji to detect word boundaries. Thai uses an alphabet but doesn't use spaces between words. Phil -- Philip Chee <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ http://xsidebar.mozdev.org Guard us from the she-wolf and the wolf, and guard us from the thief, oh Night, and so be good for us to pass. [ ]Why are Chinese fortune cookies written in English? * TagZilla 0.059