Re: Chinese language tools

2001-12-29 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, Ken Williams wrote: > Yeah, that seems like a pretty good orthogonalization. I might shorten > 'Romanization' to 'Roman', though. Roman seems confusing. Its fairly common to talk of "romanization schemes" for languages that don't use the roman alphabet. People interested

Re: Chinese language tools

2001-12-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Ken Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > HBF doesn't mean much to me (I'm not very savvy in this field, though), > perhaps a more descriptive name like 'Shape' or 'Picture' or 'Font', > maybe? HBF is the name of the font format; Lingua::ZH::HBF is equivalent to something like Lingua::ZH::TrueT

Re: Chinese language tools

2001-12-29 Thread Ken Williams
On Saturday, December 29, 2001, at 11:23 PM, Dave Rolsky wrote: > Anyway, I just noticed that there is already a Lingua::RU::Charset for > Russian charset transformations, so I'm thinking that I could release > the > modules as: > > Lingua::ZH::Charset (convert between big5, gb, and unicode, may

RE: Chinese language tools

2001-12-29 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Hugh S. Myers wrote: > Lingua is certainly obvious, but ZH doesn't tell me much. I suggest the > straight forward Lingua::Chinese as the namespace with the remaining names > the same. Can't say it will make much difference in my own scheme of things, > but I wouldn't make it

RE: Chinese language tools

2001-12-29 Thread Hugh S. Myers
Lingua is certainly obvious, but ZH doesn't tell me much. I suggest the straight forward Lingua::Chinese as the namespace with the remaining names the same. Can't say it will make much difference in my own scheme of things, but I wouldn't make it harder to find than it needs to be! Now if you were

Chinese language tools

2001-12-29 Thread Dave Rolsky
Ok, here's a message guaranteed to get no responses, but I'll try anyway. I have the need for some Chinese language/charset tools for a project I'm working on. Fortunately, I have code that others have written or that I have written that does the job. But I'd like to make these available to oth