Re: OT: Re: Using non-ascii symbols

2006-01-31 Thread Runsun Pan
>From 1387-1814, a ~430 years period, that's quite a long time. About the total recountable history of Taiwan... :) In her 400 some history Taiwan has been occupied by several foreign powers, including Dutch, Tsing Dynasty from China, Japan, and KMT party from China again. The long time fight agai

OT: Re: Using non-ascii symbols

2006-01-29 Thread Magnus Lycka
Runsun Pan wrote: > The simplified chinese exists due to the call for modernization of > language decades ago. That involved the 'upside-down' of almost > entire culture This is in some ways quite the opposite compared to Nynorsk in Norway, which was an attempt to revive the old and pure Norwegian