<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>I know that Hiragana and Katakana are separate scripts :) But in the context of the table, it is a bit confusing. The table is sorted by script name, but I'd assume that it only lists unique *tags*. </div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">In case of <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hiragana and Katakana, there is only one tag, so from the OT point of view, they are treated collectively. So I think perhaps they should be listed once, as "Hiragana and Katakana". </span></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">A.<br><br>Sent from my mobile phone.</div><div><br>On 31.03.2016, at 12:29, Hin-Tak Leung <a href="mailto:htl10@users.sourceforge.net">htl10@users.sourceforge.net</a> [mpeg-OTspec] <<a href="mailto:mpeg-OTspec-noreply@yahoogroups.com">mpeg-OTspec-noreply@yahoogroups.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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On Thu, 31/3/16, <a href="mailto:mpeg-OTspec@yahoogroups.com">mpeg-OTspec@yahoogroups.com</a> <<a href="mailto:mpeg-OTspec@yahoogroups.com">mpeg-OTspec@yahoogroups.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Re: script tags update <br>
> Wed Mar 30, 2016 11:45 pm (PDT) . <br>
> Posted by: "Adam Twardoch (Lists)" adamtwardoch <br>
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> 1. I notice that on<br>
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> <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/scripttags.htm">https://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/scripttags.htm</a><br>
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> the script tag "kana" is listed twice, once as "Hiragana" and once as<br>
> "Katakana". Is this intentional?<br>
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It most likely is. Assuming that you may not be familiar with the Japanese<br>
language, Hiragana and Katakana are the phonetic part of the Japanese<br>
character set (as opposed to the pictoral Kanji's), one for denoting native<br>
words and the other for denoting - the sound of - foreign words. Say, an<br>
English word could be represented by its pronounciation approximation as Katakana's,<br>
rather than as Latin glyphs, in a written paragraph.<br>
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The two are collectively called Kana's . It is often used collectively this way<br>
to distinguish from the Kanji's, the Chinese-derived pictoral part of the character set.<br>
Phonetic vs pictoral.<br>
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