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This is a great example of why it is important to use modules. If I were to try implementing this myself, I might have thought to check for the Chinese string "

This is a great example of why it is important to use modules. If I were to try implementing this myself, I might have thought to check for the Chinese string "十三", but I doubt I would have known to check for the uppercase version of the Chinese string "拾叄". More seriously, does anyone know what "uppercase" means in Chinese? Do they literally have two (seemingly unrelated) forms for each of their characters?

xiaq 11y ago
Only numerals have upper cases to prevent tampering. For example, you can alter 一(one) to 十(ten) pretty easily, but not 壹 to 拾.
- PeCaN 11y ago
  Oh, that actually makes a lot of sense. That also explains why they're used for checkwriting. Thanks!
rememberlenny 11y ago
There is no uppercase character in Chinese. The Chinese characters are unicode strings. The answer would be the same about an uppercase emoji.
PeCaN 11y ago
Chinese only has uppercase numbers (called 大写, lit. "big writing"). I̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶k̶n̶o̶w̶ ̶w̶h̶y̶,̶ ̶b̶u̶t̶ ̶I̶'̶m̶ ̶h̶a̶r̶d̶l̶y̶ ̶a̶n̶ ̶e̶x̶p̶e̶r̶t̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶C̶h̶i̶n̶e̶s̶e̶.̶ ̶T̶h̶e̶y̶'̶r̶e̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶ ̶u̶s̶e̶d̶ ̶m̶u̶c̶h̶. EDIT: Nevermind me, see xiaq's much better comment.
- dfc 11y ago
  Does anyone know why this breaks the content wrapping? I have seen <pre> classes do this but this text is just normal HN comment class. I really hope using strikeout unicode does not catch on around here. It is horrible.
  - PeCaN 11y ago
    Works fine for me (Firefox on Android and Windows)—I think your browser doesn't handle Unicode combining characters properly. (Chrome gets a little funky with them on Android, haven't used Windows Chrome in a while). The reason is it's two codepoints but one "grapheme", and some software doesn't handle grapheme clusters well.
elros 11y ago
Uppercase is just a simple way to put it, but it's not exactly precise. Chinese has different numeral forms depending on the usage context. The more complex versions are also known as Financial. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_numerals#Standard_numbers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_numerals#Standard_numb...

xiaq 11y ago

Only numerals have upper cases to prevent tampering. For example, you can alter 一(one) to 十(ten) pretty easily, but not 壹 to 拾.

PeCaN 11y ago
Oh, that actually makes a lot of sense. That also explains why they're used for checkwriting. Thanks!

rememberlenny 11y ago

There is no uppercase character in Chinese. The Chinese characters are unicode strings. The answer would be the same about an uppercase emoji.

PeCaN 11y ago

Chinese only has uppercase numbers (called 大写, lit. "big writing"). I̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶k̶n̶o̶w̶ ̶w̶h̶y̶,̶ ̶b̶u̶t̶ ̶I̶'̶m̶ ̶h̶a̶r̶d̶l̶y̶ ̶a̶n̶ ̶e̶x̶p̶e̶r̶t̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶C̶h̶i̶n̶e̶s̶e̶.̶ ̶T̶h̶e̶y̶'̶r̶e̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶ ̶u̶s̶e̶d̶ ̶m̶u̶c̶h̶. EDIT: Nevermind me, see xiaq's much better comment.

dfc 11y ago
Does anyone know why this breaks the content wrapping? I have seen <pre> classes do this but this text is just normal HN comment class. I really hope using strikeout unicode does not catch on around here. It is horrible.
- PeCaN 11y ago
  Works fine for me (Firefox on Android and Windows)—I think your browser doesn't handle Unicode combining characters properly. (Chrome gets a little funky with them on Android, haven't used Windows Chrome in a while). The reason is it's two codepoints but one "grapheme", and some software doesn't handle grapheme clusters well.

elros 11y ago

Uppercase is just a simple way to put it, but it's not exactly precise. Chinese has different numeral forms depending on the usage context. The more complex versions are also known as Financial. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_numerals#Standard_numbers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_numerals#Standard_numb...