Re: Asian Language Support

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Hi Yusuke

>  > A question for Yusuke: what script name should we use?
>
> It is a difficult question. In Chinese or Korean case,
> what they have chosen? In Japanese, we need to prepare a
> lot of characters for font set if they complete Adobe-Japan-1.5
> or something. So, some font vendors publish the font sets
> including only kana-region and latin/number-region (and
> elementary school level kanjis). In this case, script=kana
> might be ok, but if the font set has all the characters
> of Adobe-Japan-1.5 region, then script=kana is too impolite.
>
> Moreover, in pTeX world, we use 'kanji' for this kind, but
> we need to rethink 'kanji' is most appreciate or not.

we use hangul for korean and hanzi for chinese so kanji sounds ok to me 
but in fact there a bit more to it, currently we have

\definescript[hangul]  [method=hangul]
\definescript[hanzi]   [method=hanzi]
\definescript[nihongo] [method=nihongo]

and these use default presets but as there can be be variants in spacing 
one can also define for instance

\definescript [myhangul] [hangul] [preset=mypreferences]

(not that there are such preferences defined now) and more key/values 
will be supported some day

so, shall we go for 'kanji' for the default setup? but 'japanese' could 
do as well as well because we can define synonyms

Hans


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