Re: Pango Status Report, 14 Jan 2000

[Steve Underwood <steveu coppice org>]

Owen Taylor wrote:

> [...]

> The name is
>
>    Greek "Pan" / U03A0 U03B1 U03BD / All
>      +
>    Japanese "Go" (Mandarin Yu3, Yu4) / U8A9E / Language

Maybe Japanese uses this character in a looser way than Chinese, but in
Chinese it specifically means spoken language. The character U+6587 means
written language. For example, U+82F1 U_8A9E means spoken English, and
U+82F1 U+6587 means written English (or more generally all forms of
English).

Steve