- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 20:42:19 -0700
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- CC: www-style@w3.org
On 04/20/2011 06:21 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 6:08 PM, fantasai wrote: >> On 04/20/2011 04:29 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: >>> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 4:13 PM, fantasai wrote: >>>> On 04/20/2011 03:17 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: >>>>> >>>>> * For Chinese, interior zeros in a group, like "101" or "2002" aren't >>>>> dropped, though the second case collapses to have only a single zero >>>>> in the middle. Japanese and Korean drop all zeros in the informal >>>>> style, but drops none in the formal (I haven't yet editted the algos >>>>> to make the formal/informal distinction). >>>> >>>> What does it mean to not drop a zero? "一百一" looks correct to me. >>> >>> Do you mean for Chinese, or Japanese/Korean formal? >> >> Chinese. "一百零一" seems excessively explicit for list numbering... >> Granted it's been awhile, and my Chinese is rusty. I could very well >> be mixing things up. > > I was told that in informal styles the 0s were sometimes dropped, but > it was okay to retain them in the same way as you would in the formal > style. In that case, perhaps cjk-ideographic should drop the 零 so that there is more consistency with Japanese. (IIRC the current proposal is to map it to trad-chinese-informal.) ~fantasai
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