script tags update (Re: [mpeg-OTspec] Digest Number 549)

[Ken Lunde]

Leonardo,

Given that the "kana" script tag collectively corresponds to ひらがな and カタカナ, it makes some sense to replace the two entries for one for the collective name, カナ, being sure to include ひらがな and カタカナ in parentheses.

-- Ken

> On Mar 31, 2016, at 7:48 AM, Leonardo Chiariglione <leonardo at chiariglione.org> wrote:
> 
> Why 3 ways? There are only ひらがな and カタカナ
> Leonardo
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> From: mpeg-OTspec at yahoogroups.com [mailto:mpeg-OTspec at yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Ken Lunde lunde at adobe.com [mpeg-OTspec]
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> Subject: Re: script tags update (Re: [mpeg-OTspec] Digest Number 549)
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> One way to address this is to combine them onto a single entry as follows: 
> 
> Kana (Hiragana and Katakana) kana 
> 
> Another way is to add the above as a new entry, which allows the "kana" script tag to be found in all three ways: Hiragana, Kana, and Katakana. 
> 
> The first one seems simpler, and should not cause confusion. 
> 
> -- Ken 
> 
> > On Mar 31, 2016, at 3:29 AM, Hin-Tak Leung htl10 at users.sourceforge.net [mpeg-OTspec] <mpeg-OTspec-noreply at yahoogroups.com> wrote: 
> > 
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> > On Thu, 31/3/16, mpeg-OTspec at yahoogroups.com<mpeg-OTspec at yahoogroups.com> wrote: 
> > 
> > > Re: script tags update 
> > > Wed Mar 30, 2016 11:45 pm (PDT) . 
> > > Posted by: "Adam Twardoch (Lists)" adamtwardoch 
> > 
> > > 1. I notice that on 
> > 
> > > https://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/scripttags.htm 
> > 
> > > the script tag "kana" is listed twice, once as "Hiragana" and once as 
> > > "Katakana". Is this intentional? 
> > 
> > It most likely is. Assuming that you may not be familiar with the Japanese 
> > language, Hiragana and Katakana are the phonetic part of the Japanese 
> > character set (as opposed to the pictoral Kanji's), one for denoting native 
> > words and the other for denoting - the sound of - foreign words. Say, an 
> > English word could be represented by its pronounciation approximation as Katakana's, 
> > rather than as Latin glyphs, in a written paragraph. 
> > 
> > The two are collectively called Kana's . It is often used collectively this way 
> > to distinguish from the Kanji's, the Chinese-derived pictoral part of the character set. 
> > Phonetic vs pictoral. 
> > 
> > 
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