Japanese Clocks (was Re: Fueling an A4)

[Paul Nicholson <paul@eisusa.com>]

>If you had a Japanese clock with a round face, what symbols would you find
>at 3,6 and 9?  Same question for Chinese clocks and Arabic clocks. I would
>expect Arabic clocks to have numerals similar to the ones used in the USA,
>since our's came from that culture.  Perhaps our Japanese lister will read
>this and explain. Surely the Japanese had clocks and wrote times long
>before encountering Arabic numerals. Also, do Russian's use Arabic numerals?
>
>It IS an international list, and the required Audi content can be " What
>would be the Japanese designation for an Audi 4000csQ?" But I like the
>clock question better.

Audi 4000csQ

I've traveld many times to Korea, Japan and China, and their clocks are the
same as ours. In Japan and Korea, the English language is always used for
automobile names, gauges, controls, etc. You won't see their native writing
on or in an automobile.

In China however, the manufacture's emblems often have Chinese characters
on them. Jeep Cherokees made in Beijing say "Beijing Jeep" using Chinese
characters for the word Beijing. However even in China, most of the
automobile emblems are in western characters using the Romanization of the
Chinese name. The Romanization's were originally based on the Russian
cyrllic alphabet and when Mao and Stalin had thier falling out were
switched to the western alphabet. The pronunciation is thus based on
confusing cyrllic rules.

Paul