[Laszlo-dev] OpenLaszlo & text - annotating Hanzi or Kanjis in East Asian languages with the <ruby> tag

[Raju Bitter]

Right, that's Furigana. :-)

On Jan 31, 2010, at 2:58 PM, Henry Minsky wrote:

> That's very cool. I used to see those annotations in the manga comics, they called them 'furigana' I think.
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> On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 3:24 AM, Raju Bitter <rajubitter at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Henry,
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> This might be interesting for you as well, if you are looking into improved text components.
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> I just ran into the <ruby> tag in HTML 5: http://webkit.org/blog/948/ruby-rendering-in-webkit/
>  "A ruby annotation is a short piece of text in smaller font, written directly above or below or – with vertical text – to either side of the base text. It is most often used in East Asian typography in order to provide further information. Most commonly it shows the pronounciation of Chinese characters."
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> You probably know that from Japan, the annotation above the Kanjis. Would be valuable for OpenLaszlo apps using Japanese, Chinese, ...
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> - Raju
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> Henry Minsky
> Software Architect
> hminsky at laszlosystems.com
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