On 3/2/07, THD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is really a big cultural difference, and I think there's a need of > clarification on why the system designer put "AD" here.
Thanks for your note, I think it reasonable. Since we Japanese have a similar problem between "Heisei" and so-called "Western calendar". Edir wars around this issue occured, as well. > Therefore, the designer just wanted to make it clearer that "Don't fill in > the number of year of Republic of China, but 19xx or 20xx". I don't think > there was any intention to cause a lift of debates. Reasonable solution. 1) Can we leave it for Chinese version (and other language version which need a similar remark) and remove the remark from the lest? 2) Or pulldown menu beginning from 1900 can solve the problem also for East-Asian people like us? Cheers, -- KIZU Naoko Wikiquote: http://wikiquote.org * habent enim emolumentum in labore suo * _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
