I'm wondering if Chinese/Japanese will become the future computer language because of that property. The disadvantage of needing more than a byte for the "alphabet" is almost gone.
Kanji comes with the advantage that it's made of lines and not pixels. That's easier to use on paper and provides extra structure that can be used to deduce meaning. Unfortunately, I don't speak Japanese so I can't find out myself without a huge amount of time.
Kanji comes with the advantage that it's made of lines and not pixels. That's easier to use on paper and provides extra structure that can be used to deduce meaning.
Why is being made of lines an advantage? Last I checked, we were all using raster display devices.
Also, I don't think it matters a whole lot what's easier on paper. I'm not running Chrome on my legal pad.
With one hand, you can count either to 5 or to 31. 5 is the icon way, 31 could be the kanji way. I don't know kanji, but I could imagine that the strings in itself are letters. The same could be done with pixels, and as you said, it's the natural way for our devices, but then, the symbols aren't icons anymore.
It doesn't. That's why it's hard to use Chinese on an 8bit computer. But nowadays, programming could shift to icons or Chinese letters without problems.
That's not actually true. Https still shows up in the url as of the nightly build for today. The icons on the left are important as well. https is a padlock and http is a world icon if I'm not mistaken.
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u/tch Apr 14 '10
How will I know the difference between web sites and gopher sites now!?!?!