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
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