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Happy New Year of the Yáng to everybody! (I can't work out whether it's the Year of the Sheep, the Goat, or the Ram.) -- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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Michael Everson wrote: Happy New Year of the Yáng to everybody! (I can't work out whether it's the Year of the Sheep, the Goat, or the Ram.) Ram. Eric.
Re: 4701
At 10:19 -0800 2003-02-01, Eric Muller wrote: Michael Everson wrote: Happy New Year of the Yáng to everybody! (I can't work out whether it's the Year of the Sheep, the Goat, or the Ram.) Ram. europe.cnn.com (which I was looking at for other, sadder reasons), says Goat. My local Superquinn's (large grocery chain) has had signs on all the Chinese food for weeks which says Ram. My Chinese dictionary says Sheep. -- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Michael Everson wrote: > At 10:19 -0800 2003-02-01, Eric Muller wrote: > >Michael Everson wrote: > >>Happy New Year of the Yáng to everybody! (I can't work out whether > >>it's the Year of the Sheep, the Goat, or the Ram.) > > > >Ram. > > europe.cnn.com (which I was looking at for other, sadder reasons), > says Goat. My local Superquinn's (large grocery chain) has had signs > on all the Chinese food for weeks which says Ram. My Chinese > dictionary says Sheep. And the website of the Pearl River (www.pearlriver.com) department store in New York City says "lamb"! unihan.txt says that U+7F8A is "sheep, goat; KangXi radical 123". On Google, "year of the goat" has the lead. And it is 4701 or 4700?--the only thing that is certain is that it is the guiwei year of the sixty-year "cycle of Cathay". Thomas Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Saturday, February 1, 2003, at 01:39 PM, Thomas Chan wrote: And the website of the Pearl River (www.pearlriver.com) department store in New York City says "lamb"! unihan.txt says that U+7F8A is "sheep, goat; KangXi radical 123". Stolen from Mathews, as it happens. On Google, "year of the goat" has the lead. Systran has sheep. KangXi says (if I'm understanding it correctly) something like "animal with curved horns." (It's more complex than that, but I think I caught the essence.) == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tejat.net/
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Thomas Chan scripsit: > And it is 4701 or 4700?--the only thing that is certain is that it is the > guiwei year of the sixty-year "cycle of Cathay". So that line of Tennyson's only meant that Europe did things 6/5 as fast as China? I interpreted "cycle" in that context to mean a century (cf. French), giving a 2:1 ratio. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all. There are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful. --_The Hobbit_
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John H. Jenkins scripsit: > KangXi says (if I'm understanding it correctly) > something like "animal with curved horns." (It's more complex than > that, but I think I caught the essence.) It reminds me of the desperate definition of "horse", sense 1, in the English-language _Century Dictionary_ (first ed. 1889) as "the well-known quadruped". The dictionary is available on the web at http://www.global-language.com/CENTURY/, but you need to download a plugin -- it's available in a graphical format called DjVu. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all. There are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful. --_The Hobbit_
Re: LATIN LETTER N WITH DIAERESIS?
I have updated my document at http://www.unicode.org/~asmus/what_is_this_character.pdf with much of the information supplied by people on this list and some others. All characters are now mapped to Unicoe characters or character sequences where I felt that this was possible. If there are obvioous errors, please point them out and I'll update the listing. However, there are some unidentified characters, or ones that could be considered missing from Unicode 4.0, or which have mappings that for one or the other reason could be considered not ideal. These have been highlighted. I welcome suggestions for additions to or subtractions from this list, plus any help anyone could provide in identifying the characters or in locating places they are used. The entire set is in use in some Microsoft Bookshelf products, however, so in principle one ought to be able to search them somehow, but I doubt that the UI exposes these as Unicode. A./
