9 Apr
2003
9 Apr
'03
5:13 p.m.
At 06:01 PM 4/9/03 +0100, Jim Dixon wrote:
I don't think that anyone who has learned to read and write one of the languages based on Chinese characters would agree that they are "atrocious". If your native language is written using a western alphabet, characters are hard to learn. But once learned, they are conveniently concise.
Yes, one's first operating system is always the best. Orientals were self-handicapped by not having a smaller alphabet. Horrible typewriters, and forget putting the glyphs into a mid-80's character ROM. Yes, they're concise, but they require very high resolution to render. And, at least some symbol sets are not phonetic.