Re: anime-int.com's new look
to | tenchi@ML.usagi.org
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from | "Billy Ting" <ancintpc@flash.net>
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subject | Re: anime-int.com's new look
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date | Sat, 01 May 1999 15:54:06 -0500
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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
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