Comment by vessenes
6 years ago
I am guessing that Fabrice is planning on some sort of commercialization here; this is a re-issue of something originally on his website.
A fun game to play is to see how many characters a name takes: it’s an indication of your importance to the Internet.
In answer to the why Chinese, it seems to me to be easier to read and more compact to display than hexlified bytes.
My last name compressed to 3 characters. I tried my wife's last name and it was 3 characters, then I decided to add the accent to it that normally gets dropped in an English-language context and it compressed to 2. Adding first names, I was 4 characters and she was 5 with and without the accent. William Shatner went to 6 characters. Barack Obama went to 2. William Shakespeare also to 2.
Right, I guess your last name is the importance of all Hoseks worldwide, albeit vis-a-vis some chunking of the word, so it has to compete with the importance of other Hos es like hospitals and so on.