[OT] Re: identifiers & "unialpha"

[Kevin Bealer]

Kristian wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Sep 2006 19:01:36 +0300, Sean Kelly <sean at f4.ca> wrote:
> 
>> Kristian wrote:
>>> On Sat, 23 Sep 2006 11:40:08 +0300, Kevin Bealer 
>>> <kevinbealer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> It's a kind of history censorship - you can't translate the old 
>>>> Chinese literature because they want to destroy the old culture as 
>>>> it competes philosophically with Communism.
>>>>
>>>> Essentially, they didn't have to burn all the old books -- they just 
>>>> burned all the old printing presses.
>>>  If that's the case, I'm very sorry to hear that! :(
>>
>> This is completely off-topic, but if you're interested in learning a 
>> bit about the Communist Revolution in China the fun way, go find the 
>> movie "To Live" in the foreign film section of your favorite video 
>> store. It's an excellent film that spans maybe 30 years of Chinese 
>> history, including the Communist Revolution.
>>
>>
>> Sean
> 
> Thanks for the tip.

Yes - I really enjoyed that movie.

The site where I got the history of this, which I tried to summarize 
above, was a unicode related article.  What I wrote above is somewhat 
negative (intentionally) toward the PRC -- I don't take any of that 
back, but I thought I should post the link as well.

It also has some interesting unicode related info (which is maybe 
marginally on-topic?) but the technical stuff might be out-dated.

http://www.hastingsresearch.com/net/04-unicode-limitations.shtml

Kevin