Re: Does RB 5.5.4 fully support Japanese localization?

[Sam Rowlands <sam at scriptsoftware dot com>]

Joe, you got it in one... I am sorry for not making it clear. Thanks 
for explaining the situation to me... You see it is true, you do learn 
something new every day!
On Jan 31, 2005, at 5:37 PM, 
realbasic-nug-request at lists dot realsoftware dot com wrote:
> Message: 20
> Subject: Re: Does RB 5.5.4 fully support Japanese localization?
> From: "Joseph J. Strout" <joe at realsoftware dot com>
> Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 11:00:45 -0600
>
> At 4:48 PM +0000 1/31/05, Sam Rowlands wrote:
>
> > I beg to differ with the comment below, as Japanese has some major
> > different characters to Chinese, albeit some are very similar in
> > look and meaning.
> You must be differing with the description of kanji as "Chinese
> characters" -- but this is indeed how they are referred to and
> described in Japanese.  This is compared to romaji, which are
> standard Roman characters, and hiragana  or katakana, which are
> (each) a phonetic alphabet.  I think the reference to kanji as
> Chinese characters has more to do with their origin than with their
> similarity today.
>
> We now return you to your regularly scheduled on-topic posts...  :)
>
> Best,
> - Joe
Mahalo & Aloha,

Sam Rowlands

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