Message-ID: <199905011554060530.0015BF29@mail.flash.net> Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 15:54:06 -0500 From: "Billy Ting" To: tenchi@ML.usagi.org Subject: Re: anime-int.com's new look Reply-To: tenchi@ML.usagi.org X-ML-archive: http://www.win.ne.jp/~doi/ML/ Precedence: bulk On 5/1/99 at 12:10 AM Kevin Aw wrote: > This is of particular interest to me... but yah. I've noticed subtle >differences between characters. But in most cases you can tell what the >character is because they are so similar. (Unlike the standard simplication of >the word for 'door' in Chinese... d'oh! If I didn't know about it I wouldn't >know what the hell it was.. 8) ) > > You'll need to turn on S-JIS and Big5 here alternatively... > > What you said about aquiring simplified characters today... I would say it >pertains directly to this character: The character for "country".. (in both >languages) > >S-JIS: =8D=91 >Big5: =B0=EA > > I've seen the S-JIS character used in Chinese for the same meaning.. so.. I >guess that's what you mean, right? Yup. > So your question is.. is this character and other characters we may not know >about... since they are the simplified version of an original Chinese >character, are they drawn from the set of Chinese simplified characters? > > Is that right? > > I think I've also seen the same thing with: (Character for "gas".. or "air", >both languages) > >S-JIS: =8BC >Big5: =AE=F0 > > In this case the S-JIS character is sometimes used in Chinese to represent >the Big5 character...(I think) Oh. > By the way.. I've seen someone from the Mainland write the "country" >character once as: > _ > |X| > - > > essentially a box with an 'X' in it.. 8) ugh.. it was ugly.. 8) I've seen that a couple times too. Thank goodness someone knew what the hell I was talking about too. -Billy Ting "When I kill the bugs with no emotion, my heart gets excited. I wonder why." -Izumi Maki (Nadesico) http://welcome.to/ElHazard || http://welcome.to/TenchiMuyo