Updated my Name: field.

[randomness]

I've updated my name here from a lame pinyin romanization using digits to indicate tones to one that uses traditional Chinese characters. And just in time for the Lunar New Year, too. Wheee.

Aside from the self-puffery, I figured I'd ask if it causes problems for your browser. It works fine on this system, but if it regularly trashes other people's views of my pages, tell me and I'll see what can be done about it.

As a side note, I discovered that there's someone in Xi'an with the same name as me. They're the contact on some environmental engineering page for a shopping mall that's under construction.

Comments

[signsoflife.livejournal.com]

it doesn't crash me, but it just shows up as question marks.

[signsoflife.livejournal.com]

(netscape on windows XP.)

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the report! As long as they don't bother you, question marks are okay. Massive layout problems and browser crashing is not. :)

[gingicat]

I see what appears to be three Chinese characters in Firefox for Mac OSX. Of course, I have no idea if they're the correct ones. :)

[cmat.livejournal.com]

Ditto, for Mozilla on Linux (suse) and Firefox on Windows 2000 (at work, it's not my fault).

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the report, and sorry about your work system!

[redbird]

Likewise, using Netscape 7.2 on Windows 98.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Cool, thanks for the report!

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the report!

[skreeky]

Mozilla on Win NT with whatever my settings are, shows "???"

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

As long as they don't bother you, question marks are okay. Massive layout problems and browser crashing is not. :)

Thanks for the report!

[ishaa.livejournal.com]

Firefox in Windows 2000 shows ???

Firefox/XP, IE6/XP, Firefox/OS X, Safari/OS X, and IE5/OS X all show the Chinese characters.

Only Firefox and Safari on Mac OS X correctly show the characters in the title bar of the window itself.

[totient]

I found it rather odd that Firefox/XP would happily show the chinese characters on the tab bar, but not the title bar. Ah, whatever; it's not like I care about the title bar.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Yah, it's been very useful to see what's been popping up. I think title bars not coping correctly is acceptable. :)

Thanks for the report!

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

I'm taking ??? or similar character set issues as okay. Layout problems and browsers crashing, not so much.

Interesting that only Firefox and Safari on OS X do the right thing with the title bar.

Thanks for the report!

[ketzl.livejournal.com]

IE (yes I know I shouldn't use IE) shows it as boxboxbox. Hi boxboxbox :)

[gracest.livejournal.com]

Ditto.

There are more drastically painful things. Unless it's drastically painful for you, of course, but I'm surviving and so is my browser.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

:)

I figure boxboxbox is one of those fairly minor typeface display issues we can live with.

Thanks for the report!

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Well, you're a consenting adult, you can choose to use IE if you really want. :)

Thanks for the report!

[dancingdeer.livejournal.com]

lynx (where I usually read lj) isn't particularly happy with them, but isn't messing up too badly, and the name field doesn't show up on my friends page anyway. In Safari it's just fine.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Lynx! Yeah, it'd definitely surprise me if Lynx displayed the characters correctly, but odder things have happened.

Thanks for the report!

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Question marks seem to be common, unfortunately.

Fortunately, massive layout problems or browser crashing doesn't seem to be happening.

Thanks for the report!

[beowabbit]

Looks great for me on Firefox under Linux. By the way, what does 庭 mean?

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

庭 means court or courtyard, but it's usually used as part of
家庭, meaning household or family.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Oh, and thanks for the report!

[beowabbit]

Also (since I'm at work now) works fine for me in Firefox under Solaris, although we've got some non-standard Chinese fonts installed. Don't know whether it would display properly on a vanilla Solaris installation with US-only localization.

[curious-au.livejournal.com]

I've updated my name here from a lame pinyin romanization using digits to indicate tones to one that uses traditional Chinese characters.

Nuts. I have enough trouble following pinyin ( my vocabulary is very poor ), but I can't sound out script at all. :-)

On the subject of Chinese, I have to share the following little gem I recently came across - the Stone Lion Essay (http://www.yellowbridge.com/onlinelit/stonelion.html).

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the report and for the link! I'd been told a small part of the stone lion tongue-twister by my parents when I was young, but never that elaborate a story.

[madbodger.livejournal.com]

Works fine here (Safari on MacOS X again).

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the report!

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

Both the text, and title bar have appropriately Chinese looking squiggles on them in Mac OS X Safari 1.2.4 (v125.12). The squiggles are a tad too complicated to feel like they're Japanese squiggles instead, at least to me.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

The squiggles are a tad too complicated to feel like they're Japanese squiggles instead, at least to me.

Yup, I can see that. I think they're all acceptable kanji, though.

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Japanese characters have a slightly different feel to them than Chinese ones. I do know that the former is based upon the latter, but, they still feel different, and I can usually tell.

[amelia-g.livejournal.com]

Are people sending you a lot of misdirected questions about where they can put their Big Mac wrappers or does environmental engineering mean something along more sinister social manipulation lines such as what Muzak to play?

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Neither, fortunately. :) It looks like what the page is about is how much environmental impact the construction of the mall is creating.

[amelia-g.livejournal.com]

That's not really engineering anything then. Just talking about it.

[woodwardiocom.livejournal.com]

-Looks fine on IE 6.0.2900, though I have likely downloaded a few Asian character packs in my history.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the report!

[dirque.livejournal.com]

blah blah blah looks fine.

gonna be up in NYC for chinese new years like I am every year. Also always up for Autumn moon festival as an aside.

dim sum?

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Which days will you be around? I'm planning to be down in DC the week immediately before, so timing will be iffy, but it would be great to see you. You just missed saramin; she was in Manhattan this last weekend for an interview.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Whoops, I meant sarabellum.

Anyway, your name came up; she wondered if you were still in Astoria and I brought her up to date.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Speaking of dim sum, have you been East Buffet, 4201 Main St., Flushing, NY 11355, (718) 353-6333.

Mom says that one side of the building is a very good buffet and the other side is dim sum. Haven't been there yet myself.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Er, make that "have you been to"...

[dirque.livejournal.com]

I probably have been there. My MO for restaurants in NYC is um... which direction should I walk till something looks appetising to either myself or who i'm with. So I'm horrible with names. Is it the place on the 2nd floor with a really really big staircase?

I keep finding myself in the Flushing mall doing that whole hot pot thing. Where you buy eggs and meat and stuff and cook the food at your table in a soup. Well you don't cook the egg, you make a dipping sauce with that sesame oil, and soil sauces.

[dirque.livejournal.com]

I'll be in town the evening of Feb. 7 to afternoon feb 12.

[mahjhongg.livejournal.com]

hey, when is the lunar new year? my friends and i have to throw a party.

[dirque.livejournal.com]

Feb 8 -9. Eve and Day.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Which reminds me I need to go get cards and mail them out ASAP.

I bet noone has mentioned...

[justfrank.livejournal.com]

... Opera 7.54 on FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE, and it works fine. :)