Talkback for LG article on QQ

Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:09:54 -0400

Hi, Silas -

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 03:41:55PM +0100, Silas S. Brown wrote:

> (This message contains Chinese characters
> in the UTF-8 encoding.)

That should show up fine in LG; all our HTML has 'UTF-8' specified as the encoding.

> I'd like to add two comment to my article
> about using the Chinese instant messaging
> service "QQ" on Linux, at
> http://linuxgazette.net/167/brownss.html

Just FYI - we generally avoid changing articles after publication. Given that we have quite a few mirror sites, all of which pull our new issues shortly after publication (and then never touch them again), changing our copy would just put us out of sync with the rest of the world.

The best way to "update" an article is either by writing a new one about the updated state of things - or do what you've done here, i.e. post to TAG.

 祝
一切顺利!

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Mulyadi Santosa [mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com]

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:32:41 +0700

>  祝
> 一切顺利!
>

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Is that "Xie Xie", or a secret message to start nuclear detonation somewhere on Earth? :D

-- regards,

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Peter =?gb2312?q?H=A8=B9we?= [PeterHuewe at gmx.de]

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:06:05 +0200

Am Dienstag 20 Juli 2010 08:32:41 schrieb Mulyadi Santosa:

> >  祝
> > 一切顺利!
> 
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Is that "Xie Xie", or a secret message to start nuclear detonation
> somewhere on Earth? :D
>

Something like: "all the best" or best regards ;)

Xie Xie is ?? ;) (means thanks / thank you)

A really neat tool for mandarin/chinese is dimsum ;) http://www.mandarintools.com/dimsum.html

Peter

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Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:22:26 -0400

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 01:32:41PM +0700, Mulyadi Santosa wrote:

> >  祝
> > 一切顺利!
> >
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Is that "Xie Xie", or a secret message to start nuclear detonation
> somewhere on Earth? :D

Even if you don't know Chinese (and I don't, actually - it seems rather obvious that "Xie Xie" (??) would be two identical Kanji, right?

The above was just a polite way to close correspondence, on the order of "hope it all goes well". I find it interesting that the alignment of the character on the first line is considered critical to correct usage... it's a different world.

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Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:24:13 -0400

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 03:06:05PM +0200, Peter H?we wrote:

> 
> A really neat tool for mandarin/chinese is dimsum ;)
> http://www.mandarintools.com/dimsum.html

Oh, nifty! http://www.zhongwen.com/ is also very cool.

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