Tag Archives: typography

Living with an obscure name

Posted on 2008-12-27 by Joel Martinsen

A woman named 马CHENG has an obscure character in her name. Her passport and rental contract are able to work with it, but predictably, the PSB has problems.

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Mao Zedong’s calligraphy on your computer

Posted on 2007-08-23 by Joel Martinsen

Chairman Mao has a font! (毛泽东字体)

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Problems with crazy characters

Posted on 2007-08-20 by Joel Martinsen

Can we name our kids ‘@’? A report from the ministry of education (中国教育部《中国语言生活状况报告》). Also, Liu Binjie (柳斌杰) on font sets.

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Further developments in the case of the polite pronoun

Posted on 2007-06-18 by Joel Martinsen

More comments on 您 from Ding Qizhen (丁启阵) and Qian Shiming (钱世明).

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Acceptance comes for obscure characters

Posted on 2006-09-28 by Joel Martinsen

New IDs are now able to handle 32 obscure characters, but 199 still remain unaddressed.

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