<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 12:11 AM, Reinhard Kotucha <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:reinhard.kotucha@web.de" target="_blank">reinhard.kotucha@web.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>On 18 January 2009 Yannis Haralambous wrote:<br>
<br>
> NO NO NO there is no such thing as "uppercase" and "lowercase" Kana!!!<br>
><br>
> If you seen two different sizes (for ***some*** of the characters)<br>
> this is because the smaller characters have a special function: they<br>
> are vowels which will change the vowel part of a syllable. For<br>
> example, you have a syllable "chi" if you add a small "a" it will<br>
> become "cha" (if you add a big "a" you will have two syllables "chi-a").<br>
<br>
</div>Hi Yannis,<br>
maybe I had been confused by things I found in the Unicode book:<br>
<br>
LATIN SMALL LETTER A<br>
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A<br>
<br>
I assumed that<br>
<br>
HIRAGANA LETTER SMALL A<br>
HIRAGANA LETTER A<br>
<br>
is something similar but I always wondered why Kana have so few<br>
'SMALL' characters. What you said explains a lot. Thank you very<br>
much for the explanation.<br>
<div><div></div><div></div></div></blockquote><div><br>I have found useful these books<br><br>1)<br><div><div>Fonts & encodings</div>
<div>Yannis Haralambous, P. Horne, P Scott Horne</div><div></div><div>Edition: illustrated</div><div>
O'Reilly, 2007</div><div>ISBN 0596102429, 9780596102425</div><div>1016 pag.<br><br>2)<div><div>
The Unicode Standard 5.0: 5.0</div><div>Julie D. Allen, Unicode Consortium, Unicode Consortium</div><div></div><div>Edition: 5, illustrated, revised</div>
<div>Addison-Wesley, 2007</div><div>ISBN 0321480910, 9780321480910</div><div>1417 pagine</div></div><br>3)<br></div></div><span class="book-title">CJKV Information Processing, Second Edition
</span>
<br><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/297">Ken Lunde</a></span><br>December 2008<br>
Pages: 900<br>
ISBN 10: 0-596-51447-6 |
ISBN 13: 9780596514471<br></div></div><br><br><br>-- <br>luigi<br><br>