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Re: Tongyong Pinyin bites the dust (was: Pinyin)

John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> Thu, 18 September 2008 03:04 UTC

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Doug Ewell scripsit:

> Unfortunately, this doesn't cause all existing Tongyong Pinyin content 
> to vanish off the earth, and so if there was a need to tag Tongyong 
> content before, that need has not gone away.

True.  But it also means that we don't have to worry about how to
represent Tongyong at this stage, since no one has asked for it.  We can
decide later or never.

-- 
John Cowan   cowan@ccil.org
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        anything, you can put the telegram down as a forgery."

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