Chinese Cash Coin Read Order Top Bottom Right Left Rule

Render actual Chinese cash legend annotations in explicitly supplied top,bottom,right,left positional convention with unknown placeholders; not OCR, universal read-order for every issue, dynasty attribution or text-word counting.

Description

An inscription transcription needs an explicit reading order and a visible distinction between known and unreadable glyphs.

An inscription transcription needs an explicit reading order and a visible distinction between known and unreadable glyphs.1

Enter four positioned strings and four binary known flags. Known strings must each be one Unicode scalar; all strings are at most two UTF-16 units without lone surrogates. Return the prescribed concatenation, completeness and unknown zero-based indices.

When to use Chinese Cash Coin Read Order Top Bottom Right Left Rule

Use Chinese Cash Coin Read Order Top Bottom Right Left Rule when you need to evaluate the supplied records under the calculation and evidence rules below. Unknown supplied text is replaced by ?. No OCR, translation or universal inscription convention is inferred.

Prepare the measured coin evidence or explicitly verified catalog and prices requested. Keep measurement conditions, units and currency consistent.

How to use Chinese Cash Coin Read Order Top Bottom Right Left Rule and understand its results

  1. Prepare the measured coin evidence or explicitly verified catalog and prices requested. Keep measurement conditions, units and currency consistent.
  2. Enter callerTopBottomRightLeftObservedGlyphs, callerTopBottomRightLeftGlyphEvidenceFlags using the field table and calculation rules, then run the tool.
  3. Read orderedTopBottomRightLeftLegend, completeLegendEvidence, unobservedGlyphPositionIndices. The explanation below defines the units, signs, ordering and any flags or placeholder values.
  4. If the tool reports an input issue, correct the values and run it again. Apply the stated assumptions when interpreting a successfully returned result.
Input fieldMeaningValue type; see rules belowRequirement
callerTopBottomRightLeftObservedGlyphsCaller top bottom right left observed glyphslist of stringRequired
callerTopBottomRightLeftGlyphEvidenceFlagsCaller top bottom right left glyph evidence flagslist of numberRequired

Enter four positioned strings and four binary known flags. Known strings must each be one Unicode scalar; all strings are at most two UTF-16 units without lone surrogates. Return the prescribed concatenation, completeness and unknown zero-based indices.

transcription=top+bottom+right+left, replacing unknowns with ?

Units, indexing, boundary conditions and exceptional cases are defined in the calculation rules above.

Output fieldMeaningValue type
orderedTopBottomRightLeftLegendOrdered top bottom right left legendstring
completeLegendEvidenceComplete legend evidenceboolean
unobservedGlyphPositionIndicesUnobserved glyph position indiceslist of number
json
{
  "input": {
    "callerTopBottomRightLeftObservedGlyphs": [
      "乾",
      "隆",
      "通",
      "寶"
    ],
    "callerTopBottomRightLeftGlyphEvidenceFlags": [
      1,
      1,
      1,
      1
    ]
  },
  "output": {
    "orderedTopBottomRightLeftLegend": "乾隆通寶",
    "completeLegendEvidence": true,
    "unobservedGlyphPositionIndices": []
  }
}

Limitations and assumptions

Unknown supplied text is replaced by ?. No OCR, translation or universal inscription convention is inferred.

Numeric inputs, where present, must be finite. Follow the calculation-specific rules for overflow, underflow and exceptional cases. Numeric lists are limited to 10,000 entries; string lists to 128 strings of at most 128 characters each. The rules above may impose smaller limits. Missing required fields, extra fields, wrong value types and violations of the calculation rules are input errors. A successfully returned false flag is an evaluated outcome; its meaning is explained above.

Alternative or Complementary methods

Use Reign Title Era Name to Calendar Years Converter: Reign ordinals can be translated using an explicit first calendar year. The last known year provides a separate range check. For a complementary task, use Edge Reeding Ridge Count Tool: A ridge survey records angular positions around an edge. The closing interval is meaningful only for a declared complete circumference.

References

  1. Chinese Cash Coin Read Order Top Bottom Right Left Rule — tool.io

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