Re: LATIN LETTER N WITH DIAERESIS?

2003-02-01 Thread Asmus Freytag
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 obvio

Re: 4701

2003-02-01 Thread John Cowan
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

Re: 4701

2003-02-01 Thread John Cowan
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. Fre

Re: 4701

2003-02-01 Thread John H. Jenkins
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 t

Re: 4701

2003-02-01 Thread Thomas Chan
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 a

Re: 4701

2003-02-01 Thread Michael Everson
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

Re: 4701

2003-02-01 Thread Eric Muller
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.

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2003-02-01 Thread Michael Everson
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