Computer coding systems convert most Chinese pictorial characters for printing, but some are so rare that they are never assigned a code.

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The real problem we are facing is that despite all of the central bank money printing, the underlying U.S., European, Japanese and even Chinese economies are not growing and will not grow fast any time soon.

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Paper comes from the Chinese, the Western alphabet comes from the Phoenicians, the page numbers come from the Arabs and ultimately the Indians, and printing has a heritage through Gutenberg, a German, as well as through the Chinese and Koreans.

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