Sorry for the slow response. Marcus Richert has been trying to send to the group about this
but Yahoo has been rejecting his emails. I had the same issue with another list a few days
back.
The 全角 numerics appear to be the most common surface forms these days, at least in WWW pages
but probably elswhere too. We're tagging them "by hand", as they don't show up in the older
ranking metrics.
Jim
Hi everybody,
I noticed recently a bunch of entries for numbers have been getting updated with a new top kanji form using the full-width arabic numeral representation. For example, the top kanji form for
百 is now １００.
I’m not necessarily against this change, but I was curious to hear the reason for it. I’m not completely sure if as a Japanese learner you looked up ひゃく or “one hundred” in a dictionary, you’d want to see １００ as the primary form, I’m guessing you’d want to see 百? Of course, if １００ is truly more common, then maybe that’s the appropriate form to show, I’m not sure. Just wanted to bring it up for discussion.
Also, in the above case the 百 form is still marked with the [ichi1,news1,nf01] tags, which I believe is supposed to indicate that that’s the most common form. But the １００ entry is the first one in the list. So it seems slightly ambiguous to me which is being indicated as the most common form.
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