"and today Taiwan is pissed because they are being marginalized"
They sorta have to be, or else everyone will forget that they want to be their own little country, and when China swallows it up, noone will care (except them).
I don't see mention of simplified nor traditional until your "please stop referring". And "thus, there is only one..." is neither a conclusion nor even true.
There certainly is a difference between simplified and traditional, esp. as
there are cases of multiple traditional hanzi mapping to only one simplified. Moreover, outside of China (that other place), there are Japanese-only characters, which may or may not be called "Chinese", I don't really care, but they are certainly not "Chinese" as in "part of Chinese language/culture/nation" since they were invented and are used only in Japan.
If you're referring to the unified Han character set of Unicode, then perhaps some emphasis on "unified" rather than "Han" might steer us away from blatantly political trolling and towards productive discussion.
Otherwise, we are left with nothing better than: perhaps this is a China political thingy, not an issue on Taiwan.
China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) both dispute a previous story
Does it matter what they say? Any Chinese portal with enough heft can just start
handing out Chinese TLDs whenever they like. (For that matter, so could I, but
noone would know). Does anyone know the current state of international tld
support in browsers? And what encoding is/would it support?
For that matter, if China (mainland) blazes the path for Chinese TLDs, would
they go with gb2312 and thus sort of make China (mainland)'s TLD scheme the default for the world as opposed to Taiwan's Big5?
Myself, I'd be happy to see utf-8 tlds, but that's small potatoes compared to
my fervent whish for a utf-8 clean php release. Does slashdot support
You know, the very first time I went to www.google.com, I knew exactly what to do.
The very first time I do _anything_ with M$, I haven't got a clue.
I think their google-killer suffers from a bit of UI-overload, don't you?
The hype-meter on my toolbar is pegged to the right. One questionaire, not even a clinical trial, about a substance with many, many compounds and they've got the
results pegged to one allele that metabolises just one compound, caffiene, slowly.
Let's put a "why do you loose sleep" on the slashdot poll. May as well conclude that
slashdotters who loose sleep staying up all night do so because of cowboy neal.
Well, so long as they have some odd genotype.
Slashdot Mirror
"and today Taiwan is pissed because they are being marginalized"
They sorta have to be, or else everyone will forget that they want to be their own little country, and when China swallows it up, noone will care (except them).
...posting to Slashdot as a Bonfire of the Vanities.
;-)
don't take you're eyes of your karma
I don't see mention of simplified nor traditional until your "please stop referring". And "thus, there is only one..." is neither a conclusion nor even true.
There certainly is a difference between simplified and traditional, esp. as there are cases of multiple traditional hanzi mapping to only one simplified. Moreover, outside of China (that other place), there are Japanese-only characters, which may or may not be called "Chinese", I don't really care, but they are certainly not "Chinese" as in "part of Chinese language/culture/nation" since they were invented and are used only in Japan.
If you're referring to the unified Han character set of Unicode, then perhaps some emphasis on "unified" rather than "Han" might steer us away from blatantly political trolling and towards productive discussion.
Otherwise, we are left with nothing better than: perhaps this is a China political thingy, not an issue on Taiwan.
Does it matter what they say? Any Chinese portal with enough heft can just start handing out Chinese TLDs whenever they like. (For that matter, so could I, but noone would know). Does anyone know the current state of international tld support in browsers? And what encoding is/would it support?
For that matter, if China (mainland) blazes the path for Chinese TLDs, would they go with gb2312 and thus sort of make China (mainland)'s TLD scheme the default for the world as opposed to Taiwan's Big5?
Myself, I'd be happy to see utf-8 tlds, but that's small potatoes compared to my fervent whish for a utf-8 clean php release. Does slashdot support
I can't download free support from M$ either, even though I allready paid them.
You know, the very first time I went to www.google.com, I knew exactly what to do. The very first time I do _anything_ with M$, I haven't got a clue. I think their google-killer suffers from a bit of UI-overload, don't you?
The hype-meter on my toolbar is pegged to the right. One questionaire, not even a clinical trial, about a substance with many, many compounds and they've got the results pegged to one allele that metabolises just one compound, caffiene, slowly. Let's put a "why do you loose sleep" on the slashdot poll. May as well conclude that slashdotters who loose sleep staying up all night do so because of cowboy neal. Well, so long as they have some odd genotype.