Mixing Chinese and Japanese [Re: Simplified Chinese in SuSE]

Marc Waeckerlin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.suse.m17n
Organization Siemens Schweiz AG
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Am Dienstag, 17. Mai 2005 16.12 schrieb Mike FABIAN  <Mike 
FABIAN <[email protected]>> unter "Re: [m17n] Simplified 
Chinese in SuSE":
> This is because Japanese, simplified Chinese, and
> traditional Chinese overlap in the Han region in Unicode
> and therefore you have to indicate your font preferences
> somehow. If one of these languages is your main language
> already and you do not care about the other CJ languages,
> there is no problem. If you want to use all Japanese,
> simplified Chinese, *and* traditional Chinese at once,
> you have to carefully think about which fonts to use or
> it won't look nice in GTK and glyphs will be missing in
> KDE.

Even though my main Asian language is simplified Chinese 
(zh_CN), I sometimes also need Japanese (jp) and Korean 
(ko). Also, for reasons of beauty, I use traditional 
Chinese (zh_TW) in special (old stylish) documents (e.g. 
poems).

So, you mean I can get zh_CN to work properly, but then I 
have trouble using jp or zh_TW? Is there a workaround? I 
probably don't have a problem with Chinese, when I use a 
font in OpenOffice that exists in zh_CN and zh_TW, such as 
AR-Kaiti and AR-Songti, which exists as GB (zh_CN) and Big5 
(zh_TW)?

What do Chinese people do, when they sometimes have to write 
letters in Japanese, e.g. if the work in the Chinese branch 
of Sony?

Thank you
Regards
Marc

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