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.

[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. :)

[skreeky]

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

[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.

[ketzl.livejournal.com]

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

[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.

[beowabbit]

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

[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).

[madbodger.livejournal.com]

Works fine here (Safari on MacOS X again).

[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.

[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?

[woodwardiocom.livejournal.com]

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

[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?

[mahjhongg.livejournal.com]

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

I bet noone has mentioned...

[justfrank.livejournal.com]

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