RE: Decimal separator with more than one character?

From: Marco Cimarosti (marco.cimarosti@essetre.it)
Date: Mon May 19 2003 - 12:13:49 EDT

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Andrew C. West wrote:
> The "zh" code is for Zhongguo, being the pinyin
> representation of U+4E2D U+56FD "Middle Kingdom"

IMHO, the original meaning of "zhong" was more "inside" than "middle", so
wouldn't "inner countries" be a closer translation? Also cmp. the opposite
"waiguo": "abroad" (lit. "outer countries").

_ Marco

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