The diarist tells us he was given 10 kan of new money, sufficient for a stake at shudan. Even to this day, the leading go computer program by Professor Chen Zhixing of Zhongshan in China is known as Handtalk . In general we use the language of the country where a player is permanently resident. There are some which are Japanese renderings of names from the other countries and these look short. Taiwanese players sometimes use the Wade-Giles romanisation, but we do not.
Korean names have yet to be standardised .
The Korean government has promulgated two official systems, but most Koreans ignore both. Few Koreans adopt any kind of consistency . The solution adopted here is to use one of the official systems, McCune-Reischauer transcription , which is also used by scholars in the west. However, the limitations of ascii text mean that we cannot reproduce the circumflex sometimes required over letters o and u. The standard way round this is to use a prefixed e, which is why the name of the capital is usually written Seoul.