[OT] Legacy encodings (was: Re: Chinese rod numerals)

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Christopher Cullen wrote:

> The earliest statement on this point is that of Liu Hui 劉徽 around AD
> 263, who says:
>
> 正筭赤負筭黑否則以邪正為異

One of the things I like about the Unicode list is that people have, and
use, the freedom to post in different scripts instead of “ASCII-fying”
everything. Hopefully, one day, it will become more common to actually
post these items *in* Unicode, instead of resorting to legacy encodings
like Big5. I understand that the current situation, whereby e-mail
clients choose fonts on the basis of encodings rather than character
content, makes this difficult.

-Doug Ewell
 Fullerton, California
 http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/

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