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Title: How are Bitcoin addresses written in Chinese? Post by: Elwar on January 23, 2013, 08:55:01 PM With the large amount of Chinese characters are Bitcoin addresses a lot shorter or do they just write them using our letters and numbers?
Title: Re: How are Bitcoin addresses written in Chinese? Post by: RodeoX on January 23, 2013, 08:58:35 PM With the large amount of Chinese characters are Bitcoin addresses a lot shorter or do they just write them using our letters and numbers? They would use latin numbers and letters, like we see here. If you tried using Chinese characters it would become a different addy. I think?Title: Re: How are Bitcoin addresses written in Chinese? Post by: yogi on January 23, 2013, 09:07:29 PM Bitcoin addresses are binary data, they are often expressed in Base64 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64) to make them human readable, and allow for easy cutting and pasting. Although Chinese characters could use a similar scheme, as Base64, I'm not aware of any that exists at the moment.
Title: Re: How are Bitcoin addresses written in Chinese? Post by: rng29a on January 24, 2013, 12:08:15 AM Bitcoin addresses are binary data, they are often expressed in Base64 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64) to make them human readable, and allow for easy cutting and pasting. Although Chinese characters could use a similar scheme, as Base64, I'm not aware of any that exists at the moment. Actually Bitcoin addresses are encoded with Base58 to avoid similar characters (0OIl). https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Base58Check_encoding (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Base58Check_encoding) Using Chinese characters encoded with UTF-8 would lead to different address lengths as the UTF-8 length for Chinese characters is 3 to 4 bytes. Title: Re: How are Bitcoin addresses written in Chinese? Post by: Polvos on January 24, 2013, 04:04:30 AM So the next question jumps clear;
Why don't the chinese people have a fork of the Bitcoin project in their base language? Title: Re: How are Bitcoin addresses written in Chinese? Post by: kiba on January 24, 2013, 04:16:27 AM So the next question jumps clear; Why don't the chinese people have a fork of the Bitcoin project in their base language? Why do they care? Bitcoin addresses are just gibberish to everybody. Title: Re: How are Bitcoin addresses written in Chinese? Post by: payb.tc on January 24, 2013, 04:58:31 AM china + bitcoin = http://hxtop.com
...ask those guys :D Title: Re: How are Bitcoin addresses written in Chinese? Post by: mokahless on January 24, 2013, 07:35:58 AM So the next question jump is clear; I was going to say stuff, but then I realized it would be easier to have you read this:Why don't the chinese people have a fork of the Bitcoin project in their base language? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_in_computing Title: Re: How are Bitcoin addresses written in Chinese? Post by: Zangelbert Bingledack on January 24, 2013, 09:08:21 AM Thousands of character choices versus - what - 62 choices for alphanumeric characters... how much shorter could addresses be?
对馬訂書釘電池? Title: Re: How are Bitcoin addresses written in Chinese? Post by: Polvos on January 24, 2013, 11:26:48 AM So the next question jump is clear; I was going to say stuff, but then I realized it would be easier to have you read this:Why don't the chinese people have a fork of the Bitcoin project in their base language? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_in_computing Title: Re: How are Bitcoin addresses written in Chinese? Post by: finway on January 24, 2013, 11:51:39 AM Title: Re: How are Bitcoin addresses written in Chinese? Post by: hardcore-fs on January 24, 2013, 12:05:43 PM Problem is.. that is simplified... Taiwan/HK/Singapore hate and will not use simplified... China dislikes traditional.... One race... Two systems... Title: Re: How are Bitcoin addresses written in Chinese? Post by: John (John K.) on January 24, 2013, 12:15:30 PM http://www.packty.com/uploadfile/2012/0404/20120404043104806.jpg Problem is.. that is simplified... Taiwan/HK/Singapore hate and will not use simplified... China dislikes traditional.... One race... Two systems... |
