April 2009
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When efficiency isn't everything
According to an article in the Internationl Herald Tribune, as many as sixty million Chinese citizens are facing a unique problem. China is rolling out a new identity database to keep better track of their citizens. Unfortunatly, the new identity database only recognizes 32,252 unique characters, far less than the estimated 55,000 characters in the Chinese language. Meaning huge numbers of...