Re: Chinese character & pinyin frequency analysis

LEE Sau Dan wrote:

"Richard" == Richard Wordingham <jrw0602@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:


>> Then, upgrade your editor. If you're serious enough to use
>> Chinese characters, you should be using one that does it
>> properly.

Richard> Microsoft recently upgraded Notepad, at least for Windows
Richard> XP users. It now searches one's fonts for characters not
Richard> in the font you are using, so that problem has *now*
Richard> largely gone away.

Bad design. Font and characters are 2 separate things. A text-editor
should only be concerned with text characters, not fonts. Mixing the
element of "font" into a text-search is absurd.

Bad design of what? The problem is not in the editors but the fact
that most public and free fonts (and editors have to use some fonts) do
not have glyphs for all the characters in UCS-2/Unicode. And this
is not going to change anytime soon.

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