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Posted Mar 25, 2010 20:23 UTC (Thu) by khc (subscriber, #45209)
In reply to: UTF-16 by paulj
Parent article: Resetting PHP 6

I was raised in Hong Kong and not in mainland China, but I do have relatives in China. I've never heard that kids learn pinyin before the characters.


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Posted Mar 26, 2010 2:44 UTC (Fri) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]

This is what someone who was raised in China has told me.

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Posted Mar 27, 2010 22:39 UTC (Sat) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]

China has 1,325,639,982 inhabitants, according to Google. That is more than the whole of Europe, Russia, US, Canada and Australia combined. Even if there is a central government, we can assume a certain cultural diversity.

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Posted Mar 28, 2010 4:22 UTC (Sun) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]

Good point. :)

This was a Han chinese person from north-eastern China, i.e. someone from
the dominant cultural group in China, from the more developed part of China.
I don't know how representative their education was, but I suspect there's
at least some standardisation and uniformity.

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