[Uim] uim-py: Adding idioms to PY.scm

Jon Babcock jon at kanji.com
Wed Apr 7 18:16:37 EEST 2004


Yukiko Bando wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Apr 2004 09:26:29 -0600, Jon Babcock <jon at kanji.com> wrote:
> 
>> It doesn't matter whether you use Zhuyin or Pinyin or
>> Wade Giles or Yale, etc., simplified or traditional, the language we are
>> trying to represent is "Mandarin".
> 
> 
> Thank you for the explanation.  It cleared away my misconceptions.  I  
> thought Zhuyin and traditional characteres were only used in Taiwan...

That's true. But *both* Zhuyin and traditional characters and Pinyin and 
simplified characters are used to represent Mandarin. IOW, "Mandarin" is 
a much bigger concept than simply 'Pinyin and simplified characters'.

Jon

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