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dheera
on Dec 15, 2015
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Stock market indicators in China are reversed in colour from the western world (up=red, down=green). Sometimes I wonder if Github really should be flipping the colours on diffs for Chinese language users for the sake of consistency.
fredkbloggs
on Dec 15, 2015
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To be fair to the Chinese, whether a price going up or down is alarming or encouraging depends on whether one wishes to buy or to sell.
executesorder66
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Do you know if that is because up is generally "bad" for them, or because red means "good" and green means "bad"?
X-Istence
on Dec 15, 2015
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Red is considered good and prosperous. Hence the huge amount of red in Chinese culture.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_in_Chinese_culture#Red
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