SE Asian language & font issues

Subject: SE Asian language & font issues
From: "Broberg, Mats" <mabr -at- flir -dot- se>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 13:59:54 +0200


Dear listmembers,

Two questions:

- Can anyone suggest typefaces for Simplified Chinese, Traditional
Chinese and Korean where both regular and bold fonts are included? The
one we're using now (SimSun, MingLiu, and BaekmukBatang, respectively)
only contain regular fonts.

- How _should_ indices and glossaries in these languages be sorted?

In the latter case, I've heard a couple of rumours:


- That Simplified Chinese is sorted according to which one of the
approx. 400 pinyin sounds the Simpl. Chinese "word" get when transcribed
to pinyin.

- That Traditional Chinese is sorted according to the number of strokes.

- That Korean is sorted according to both the Hangul initial consonants,
medial vowels and final consonants, and the Hanja characters according
to pronunciation.


Any help is appreciated, esp. about implementation of these (or other)
sorting orders in XML.


Best regards,
Mats Broberg
Technical Documentation Manager
www.flirthermography.com

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