[KS] two formal questions - Japanese/Korean

[Frank Hoffmann]

An additional note:
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After looking a little closer my first assessment that spacing rules 
for Japanese personal names change seems correct (wich does not mean 
that I/we could not ignore that in academic texts).

It seems, as so often, that the new playing ground is the Internet, and 
that the rules that are newly being made or adjusted for Internet use 
will pretty quickly replace those for the print media. 

You probably know the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) -- its 
self-description is:
"The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community that 
develops open standards to ensure the long-term growth of the Web."
When you see changes in what script language your web browsers use, how 
they deal with 2-byte characters, or what style rules AND scripting 
they use, then it always is the W3C that enacts the standards.

Now, have a brief look at their rules for publications in JPAPANESE, 
latest version from 2012:

http://www.w3.org/TR/jlreq/
No matter if 3, 4, or 5-character personal names, all the author and 
editor names listed *on top* of the document have spaces:
The same applies to the JAPANESE original of this document:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/NOTE-jlreq-20120403/ja/

If you look at "Fig. 3.53" (on *top* of below URL) you will realize 
that spacing is given as an equal alternative.
http://www.w3.org/TR/jlreq/#fig2_3_5-en


Best regards,
Frank