Iconitis
Stuart Gathman
stuart at bms-at.UUCP
Sat Apr 15 01:29:36 AEST 1989
In article <1936 at dataio.Data-IO.COM>, bright at Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright) writes:
> is the lexicographic order? (P.S. How do the Chinese find their icons
> in a dictionary?)
Chinese (and Japanese) icons are constructed from about 200 ideograms.
(Small symbols put together to form a larger one.)
Lexical order is determined by ideogram order which in most cases scans
top to bottom, left to right. There are a few arcane exceptions, but
no worse than those in vogue in English library card catalogs.
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Stuart D. Gathman <stuart at bms-at.uucp>
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