Hi there, To throw in my two cents on using a Chinese character: I have been learning Mandarin for the past year so have some experience of using Chinese language input methods etc.
Chinese fonts and input methods are not installed by default on some systems (for example, Windows XP) and even if they are available people don't necessarily know how to use them. Furthermore, if Chinese characters are used in a text document it restricts the format of the document (Ascii cannot be used, Unicode CJK is possible). I also found that I needed to install extra latex packages to my various systems. Overall, it seems to me that if the name of the library is changed to a combination of Chinese characters and Latin characters it will be harder to refer to the library in publications and README files. It might be fine to document how to include the name in the library's wiki for users, but there will also be references from people who are not users of the library and we obviously don't want to make this difficult for them. Perhaps a better alternative to including a Chinese character in the library name would be to find a good translation or transliteration that can serve as the official Chinese name for the library. People can then use that name in documents that are mainly in Chinese. If I am over estimating the difficulties of mixing Chinese and Latin characters in a .txt or .tex file please let me know. Regards, Michael On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 1:33 PM, tarbaig <[email protected]> wrote: > The advantage of a Chinese character would be that with a little calligraphy > it could be designed to look like a anisotropically refined non rectangular > fem-mesh, and that would look great on conference posters. > > Cheers tariq > > > On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 12:51:39 -0500 > Chih-Che Chueh <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> > >> > Or we could take a non-latin character. I think some Chinese would be >> >> cool, and would be appropriate for our user base as well. Suggestions >> >> welcome! :-) >> >> >> > >> >> It would be great if you would select a Chinese character as part of the >> software name. >> >> >> But as you probably know, for those whose mother languages are not Chinese, >> many of the Chinese characters are hard to write and remember, I guess. :-) >> And also if you combined the software name with one Chinese character, it >> would be somewhat "inharmonic" as almost every of the Chinese characters is >> exactly double width of any single latin or English letter. >> >> >> >> Cheers, >> >> >> Chih-Che > > > -- > tarbaig <[email protected]> > _______________________________________________ > dealii mailing list http://poisson.dealii.org/mailman/listinfo/dealii _______________________________________________ dealii mailing list http://poisson.dealii.org/mailman/listinfo/dealii
