The bureau’s computers, however, are programmed to read only 32,252 of the roughly 55,000 Chinese characters
This is the really stupid part of it to me -- the government programmed the computers to read only 60% of their characters, and now wants to force people to change their names because they can't spend another year (or whatever) upgrading their software to read the remaining 40%? Okay, I don't know Chinese or pattern recognition software, but if they were able to get their computers to recognize more than half the language, how hard can it be to recognize the rest?
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This is the really stupid part of it to me -- the government programmed the computers to read only 60% of their characters, and now wants to force people to change their names because they can't spend another year (or whatever) upgrading their software to read the remaining 40%? Okay, I don't know Chinese or pattern recognition software, but if they were able to get their computers to recognize more than half the language, how hard can it be to recognize the rest?