Re: More Chinese stuff: Shennong Bencao

[Jorge Stolfi <stolfi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

    > [stolfi:] The two versions are supposed to differ only in the encoding,
    > but the Big5 version has 364 bullets, and the shift-JIS
    > one has only 125 + 114 + 118 = 357 bullets.  Perhaps 
    > someone who can read the text can tell me what is going on?

Mystery solved: the big5 copy at my site got mangled when I saved it
through Netscape.  Both text.jis and text.big5 now contain 125 +
114 + 118 = 357 recipes.  (The Bencao is divided into three sections,
roughly "harmless tonics", "ordinary remedies", and "dangerous remedies").

I still don't know why the file has 357 recipes only, and not 365 as
all descriptions of the book say.

For processing convenience, I have prepared two alternate versions,
nopunct.big5 and nopunct.jis, without the sentence periods ("¡D" in
Big5, "?D" in shift-JIS).

All the best,

--stolfi