Chinese character test

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sun Mar 2 22:46:52 UTC 2008


I got that, too.

-Wilson

On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
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> On Mar 2, 2008, at 12:33 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
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>  > At 12:19 PM -0800 3/2/08, Benjamin Barrett wrote:
>  >> I got gibberish on my Mac even though I have Chinese ability. Arnold
>  >> Zwicky's response to my Japanese tapas e-mail came back with the
>  >> Japanese intact. BB
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>  > I got that as intended too, if the character for
>  > "ippin"/'tapa(s)' does in fact resemble a small
>  > dish resting upon two tiny sterno warmers.
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>  > LH
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>  That's it (preceded by a horizontal line)!
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>  >> On Mar 2, 2008, at 12:52 AM, LanDi Liu wrote:
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>  >>> ¤j(R)a§A¦n!
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>  >>> --
>  >>> Randy Alexander
>  >>> Jilin City, China
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