Re: Non-Han Han characters (was Re: Level of Unicode support required for various languages)

On 06/11/2007, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> below are teo links to a 1991 article written in English that talks
> about among other things in items (1) to (8) about Non Han groups that
> use Han characters.
>
> html version <http://sino-platonic.org/complete/spp028_chinese_scripts.html>

That's a useful overview for non-Chinese speakers.

> I would be interested to know if the Nam script is infact another name
> for Chu Nom.

I am sure it is. "nam" is the natural Cantonese reading of the second
character in the word Chữ Nôm 字喃.

Andrew