RE: SE Asian language & font issues

["James Jones" <doc-x -at- earthlink -dot- net>]

Mats, 

I think that Chinese fonts *should not be bolded*. They're kind of hard
to read in the first place (because they're so complicated)(as to
Korean, I do not know, it might be the same for Korean Hanja characters,
but maybe the regular Korean phonetic Hangul alphabet can be 'bolded').
Probably there are no Chinese fonts that can be bolded. So if you are
working with content that has yet to be translated, the translator will
probably find another way to express the 'bolding' intention of the
original content.  

About indices and glossaries, what you said sounds right but I do not
have the experience to specifically say for certain.

I'm curious about these 2 things so please tell me what you find out.

Don't know much about XML. But am curious about this too.

The subject line says 'SE Asian...' but Chinese and Korean are not SE
Asian languages. Thai and Burmese are.

Jim Jones

off-site tech writing/editing/illustration + Chinese/German/Spanish to
English translation

+ cartooning + schematics + other

Mats Broberg wrote:

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.





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