bug#3179: Entering Chinese "zero": add U+3007

[Štěpán Němec]

On Thu, 05 Dec 2019 23:31:07 +0900
handa wrote:

> In article <87wobkotbq.fsf@gmail.com>, Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com> 
> writes:
>
>> > Thanks, I added U+25CB to "wan2".
>
>> Please don't, that is a Japanism.
>
>> While one of the meanings of 丸 (when read "maru") in _Japanese_ is
>> "circle", the same is not true for Chinese.
>
> Oops, sorry.  As some site showed me one of the Chinese translations of
> 丸 is ball, I thought it was ok.  I tried Google translatetion, and
> CIRCLE was translated to 圈 (Quān).  So, perhaps adding to "quan1" is
> correct, right?

Adding ○ (U+25CB) to quan1 would be less surprising I suppose, but I
really don't see any reason to have it anywhere. While not having
IDEOGRAPHIC NUMBER ZERO could be considered an omission or even bug, as
it is quite ubiquitous and a common way to write ling2 (in the meaning
"zero") in Chinese numerals, adding U+25CB is more similar to adding
various emoji or heart symbols to xin1 or a flower to hua1 or what have
you, i.e. definitely not necessary and AFAICT the py-b5 input method
doesn't do that for other symbols, either.

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Štěpán