China, Korea, Japan...........

[Nubclear]

Are great places

And they'll be even greater if someone can TRANSLATE this for me

[Spec]

It says:" This doesn't mean anything"

[Urban Ranger]

Tassadar,

I can only make heads and tails out of the character at the upper left hand corner. It means "income from a government official position."

[Dis]

does anyone know how their keyboards are set up over there?

How can they use computers? Their written language seems so impractical.

[ranskaldan]

These are my guesses for what those... squiggles ... are.

Top left: great wealth
Top right: long life
Bottom left: good luck
Bottom right: joy

[badams52]

Dis: depends upon the country and each has multiple systems. But they all have a way to convert romanized characters into ideographs. So they can all use the same keyboards we do.

[Spiffor]

I think (but UR will probably correct me) they write their words with the latin alphabet, and the computer replaces the latin chars by chinese chars automatically.

From my experience as a beginner in Japanese, Ideograms are very convenient once you learned them (which is the biggest difficulty). Once you've mastered the alphabet, it is much faster, and much less room-consuming to read and write many things.

[ranskaldan]

Originally posted by Dissident
does anyone know how their keyboards are set up over there?

How can they use computers? Their written language seems so impractical.

The Chinese language inputter was provided with Windows XP. Basically pronunciation is automatically converted into logographs, with the option to adjust in case the computer gets it wrong.

Inputters in Chinese used to be inaccurate to the point of insanity. They've gotten much better over the years.

Since Japanese and Korean use alphabets, (Japanese - partially; Korean - almost wholly) I'd imagine that things are somewhat easier for them.

[Spiffor]

Aren't the Koreans considering to use ideographs again ?

[Spiffor]

Now Tassadar, admit you have shown us the paint-work of your 3 year old daughter !

[ixnay]

bottom right looks like a sickle & hammer plus a star.

[Dis]

yes. long live the soviet union.

[Nubclear]

Originally posted by ixnay
bottom right looks like a sickle & hammer plus a star.

Yay! Someone got it!

[Drake Tungsten]

Aren't the Koreans considering to use ideographs again ?

I don't see why they would. Hanguel is sooo cool...

BTW, the Chinese speakers on the board might be taking Tass's question a bit too seriously.

[Spiffor]

Tass :
Remember, the sickle and hammer were translated by Ranskaldan to "Joy"