On 2002.02.15, at 19:27, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
When working with western scripts it is common to use bold and italic
to make things stand out. Now I can imagine that italic/oblique of
asian characters may not make sense - but how do users of such scripts
make the "standout" distinction - colour?
It is also common to use bold and italic with CJK. CJK is quite
different in terms of encodings but not so different in font rendering;
No BIDI is necessary and for most cases you draw from left to right, one
character at a time (well, for Chinese and Japanese you also have an
option to draw from up and down, scrolling from right to left. But you
can think this vertical drawing version as "transposition".
Well, one exception maybe. Use of underline is somewhat depreciated
on Japanese and Chinese. One reason is obviously due to the possible
vertical rendering; there 'under' line makes little sense. Another
reason is phonetic-ideographic conversion in input method. For
instance, to input my name 'Dan' (single character; U+5F3E), You type in
d-a-n and hiragana da-n appears WITH UNDERLINE. The you hit spece and
kanjis with pronunciation 'dan' appears in the menu. You select the
appropriate one and hit return. Now you have a single letter 'dan'
without underline.
MacOS used to be picky about that and it used to prohibit the very use
of underline when used with CJK. Now such restriction is gone because
it was so unpopular with browsers (which draws links as underline) and
you use different sort of underline (usually in color or in shades) for
kanji conversions. Nevertheless, the use of underline remain
depreciated in farvor of hyperlink marker.
KOGAI, Dan or 小飼 弾 or U+5C0F,U+98FC,U+5F3E
