I’d like to share a note that Zhou Youguang, the father of Pinyin, very generously wrote to me last week.
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2012-03-02
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G?nxiè Mark Swofford xi?nsheng de p?ny?n w?ngzhàn, b? p?ny?n yòngzuò xuéxí Zh?ngwén de g?ngjù. W? zhùhè Swofford xi?nsheng de g?ngzuò huòdé chéngg?ng!
Y?yán sh?rén y?ubié yú qínshòu,
wénzì sh? wénmíng bié yú y?mán,
jiàoyù sh? xi?njìn y?ubié yú luòhòu.Zh?u Y?ugu?ng
2012-03-02
shí nián 107 suì
You are so honoured! Congratulations!
Wow, it’s amazing! Maybe he can break the world record :p
Congratulations and, again, keep up with the good work.
That’s a great honor. I haven’t yet participated in the comments part of this website, but I appreciate your work immensely and read it often.
Sterling Swallow
Taoyuan, Taiwan
Mr Zhou’s original script should read
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and the pinyin
Y?yán sh? rénlèi bié yú qínshòu,
wénzì sh? wénmíng bié yú y?mán,
jiàoyù sh? xi?njìn bié yú luòhòu.
Apart from careful proof-reading, the transcription errors could actually be avoided if one knows that a neat structure is usually preferred.
I am having serious charset problems here. Normally I don’t have any problems displaying Chinese text.
I can’t read all the characters, neither.
I tried Unicode(UTF-8), Unicode(UTF-16LE), Big5, Big5-HKSCS, GBK, and GB18030 and the problems remains
Can anyone help me?
I have a problem displaying the Chinese text as well….
Yeah me too, Jens. I don’t have any problem viewing cn or jp text on any other site.
Guys, the site got hacked and the blog’s encoding has been FUBAR ever since. If anyone knows how to fix it, I’d appreciate hearing about it.