Monday, May 31, 2010

I purchased a Camelbak 100 oz Unbottle from REI yesterday, here is its multilingual instruction card.

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However traditional version of Chinese had many of its characters missing, replaced with underscores, while the simplified version is intact.

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3 comments:

  1. Interestingly, the underscores correspond to characters that are different between simplified and traditional.

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  2. Yes, Anon, I think the problem was that they attempted to use a font that contained only simplified characters to print the traditional version of the text. The missing characters were evidently replaced with underscores.

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  3. The traditional Chinese isn't all they messed up. There's underscores in the Polish version as well.

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