On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Yue Wang <yuleo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > yes I know.
> > But  just to keep some kind of uniformity, as the book seems to suggest.
>
> no. the more widely used name is CJK.
> see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJKV, it will redirect to CJK.
> Unicode standard also classified the group as CJK.
> (Version 5.1.0, page 409)
>
> CJK uses the similar writing systems, all of them use Chinese Characters.
> Modern Vietnamese do not include Chinese characters, it uses the Latin
> writing system.
> Only ancient Vietnamese includes Chinese characters, and that's why
> some websites/books use CJKV.
>
good to know -- as usual, I'm not able to read all book I bought .



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luigi
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