Chinese forced to change their name hanzi

From: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven (asmodai@in-nomine.org)
Date: Tue Apr 21 2009 - 03:13:23 CDT

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    Encountered this article
    http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/world/asia/21china.html where it details
    how a Chinese woman is requested to change her name of 马骋(騁) to something
    else because "[t]he bureau’s computers, however, are programmed to read only
    32,252 of the roughly 55,000 Chinese characters, according to a 2006
    government report."

    Apparently the 骋(騁) hanzi is causing them problems. 

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