Hello Shawn,
Only if you are willing to completely ignore Kanji (translation: NO, it
cannot). It would be roughly equivalent from a "size" perspective of asking
whether English could be represented if you skipped all the letters C
through X. :-(
michka
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From: "Magda Danish (Unicode)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 4:09 PM
Subject: FW: Japanese scripts?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shawn Halwes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 2:50 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Japanese scripts?
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> Can Japanese be effectively represented with only the Hiragana, and
Katakana
> scripts?
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> Thanks,
> Shawn Halwes
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