[geeks] Chinese buying Macs?

Geoffrey S. Mendelson gsm at mendelson.com
Sun May 4 23:58:31 CDT 2008


On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 12:36:41AM -0400, der Mouse wrote:
> > Note that Tiawan uses left to right characters, but they use a very
> > large alphabet,
> 
> They do?  I thought Taiwan's writing system was pictographic rather
> than alphabetic - like Chinese writing, in this regard.  Am I wrong?

Yes, I had it backwards. Tiawan still uses the tradittional right to 
left pictographs. The PRC switched to left to right. 

Geoff.

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