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3/11/10 (James): Romance of the Three Kingdoms Encyclopedia
Big update today for the Romance of the Three Kingdoms Officer Encyclopedia. It has been re-coded from the ground up to take advantage of all the new site advancements we’ve mentioned earlier. Numerous bugs have been fixed and ease-of-use and performance have both been drastically improved. Also new are a large collection of small features (e.g. Chinese language searching, clickable kingdom/category links, better color coding, faster searching, better relationship results).

To fully appreciate everything the new encyclopedia has to offer please enjoy it in a new browser aside from Internet Explorer, which does not support all of our features. Suggested web browsers include newer versions of Apple’s Safari, Google’s Chrome, and Mozilla’s Firefox. In fact, the whole internet looks better in these browsers.

Although numerous bugs have been squashed with this update I’ve surely introduced some new ones. I also have no way, at this moment, to test in Internet Explorer 7, so I’m not sure what sort of layout issues might exist in that browser. If you encounter any sort of problem please send me an email.

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2/26/10 (James): Three Kingdoms Officer Name Reference
Today brings an update to our Hanzi Project, now named the Three Kingdoms Officer Name Reference. Once called the Hanzi Project as it served as a simple cross-reference between officers in our database and their names in Traditional Chinese, the project has been expanded to include names in Wade-Giles and Simplified Chinese as well. Decimal-encoded versions of their Chinese names are also available for use in non-Unicode websites and forums, like phpBB 2. Chinese searches (traditional or simplified) are supported (example). Enjoy!

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2/18/10 (James): Officer Style Name Reference Updated
Our Three Kingdoms Officer Style Name Lookup/Reference Project has received a massive overhaul. In addition to cross-referencing officer names and style names, as you could before, you can now see styles in Wade-Giles, Pinyin with tones, and in traditional or simplified Chinese. Additionally, you can jump directly to the officer’s Encyclopedia Project entry by clicking their name.

This page actually represents a massive re-write of all the code behind these project pages—something which will allow for some very cool things down the road. For now, you can enjoy some cool benefits like searching within a kingdom (example), or searching in Chinese (example). Eventually these features will also be added to the encyclopedia project itself.

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