- From: Alan Gresley <alan@css-class.com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 22:35:22 +1100
- To: Ambrose LI <ambrose.li@gmail.com>
- CC: "MURATA Makoto (FAMILY Given)" <eb2m-mrt@asahi-net.or.jp>, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, www-international@w3.org, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
Ambrose LI wrote: > On 29 October 2010 06:24, Ambrose LI <ambrose.li@gmail.com> wrote: >> I don't think this is even a question of preference. Alan's so-called >> decimal system is extremely unnatural for han languages, and while we >> can find such use in print, it is used very sparingly as it is >> extremely difficult to read and can cause confusion. > > Perhaps I should say this is *normally* extremely difficult to read. > But I forgot to mention that there are cases that Alan's proposal > actually makes sense (e.g., when the numbers are years, telephone > numbers, serial numbers, and the like). What proposal? I didn't make one. Anyway I don't have a so called decimal system. I just use the same decimal system that various people in this world have used over the last thousand years. > Since the computer wouldn't be able to tell the difference between the > two cases, IMHO it'd be better we don't even try to convert the digits > to han numerals. IMHO it's not worth it and it's counter-productive. This 三十五 to 三五 when it means 35 is like saying AXB = AB. -- Alan http://css-class.com/ Armies Cannot Stop An Idea Whose Time Has Come. - Victor Hugo
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