Reading Chinese characters contributes to myopia

ohno   Tue Apr 21, 2009 1:26 am GMT
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Shuimo   Tue Apr 21, 2009 2:02 am GMT
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ohshit   Tue Apr 21, 2009 4:03 am GMT
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gringsby   Tue Apr 21, 2009 10:32 am GMT
In China, they must have to set the browser text size to "laregst" or set the zoom level to 150% when they read text like this.
pseudomyopian   Tue Apr 21, 2009 1:27 pm GMT
Nearsightedness in China among students:

http://www.china.org.cn/english/Life/174334.htm
wa   Tue Apr 21, 2009 2:28 pm GMT
ohno
you make some mistakes,those characters are not the Chinese that we used now.
And I think your problem is that you are not used to read Chinese, I mean you can read article in Chinese more ,and then you can read it without any difficulty.
In China, we need'nt to set the browser text size to "laregst" .
ohno   Wed Apr 22, 2009 1:02 am GMT
<<you make some mistakes,those characters are not the Chinese that we used now.>>

These are just randomly selected blocks of characters from the unicode, Big5, and GBK code pages. There are supposedly 20000+ characters there, so some of them may be rare or archaic, etc. Possibly, some are not even Chinese?
wa   Wed Apr 22, 2009 8:09 am GMT
ohno
I have seen all the words, and as a Chinese, I am very sure that all of them are not used today.I should say that even I don't recognize any of them.
And I don't think it's the words we used now makes some of the us myopia.You know, as a Chinese, we should study very hard to get a good job.I mean we ,almost all of the Chinese have to read a lot of books,year after year, and I'm sure that's the real cause.
china1   Wed Apr 22, 2009 1:48 pm GMT
<<There are supposedly 20000+ characters there, so some of them may be rare or archaic, etc. Possibly, some are not even Chinese? >>

They are not Chinese, neither traditional characters nor simple characters. Also there are no such characters in ancient like this, just garbled codes.
Big5   Wed Apr 22, 2009 3:46 pm GMT
<<They are not Chinese, neither traditional characters nor simple characters. Also there are no such characters in ancient like this, just garbled codes. >>

Why do these "garbled codes" appear in the Unicode fonts/glyphs?

You cut/paste these characters into a Wordpad document and scale up characters to 72 point and see lots of detail in each character. This means that there must be true-type (or some other scalable typeface) glyph definitions for all these unicode code points. Someone spent a lot of time getting these characters into truetype (or whatever) format.
wdasdas   Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:42 am GMT
have seen all the words, and as a Chinese, I am very sure that all of them are not used today.I should say that even I don't recognize any of them.
And I don't think it's the words we used now makes some of the us myopia.You know, as a <a href='http://www.biketrialseller.com'>Bike Trials</a> Chinese, we should study very hard to get a good job.I mean we ,almost all of the Chinese have to read a lot of books,year after year, and I'm sure that's the real cause.
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