The Legality of 四 Pokemon Per PUI's New Foreign Language Policy

[drrty byl]

http://www.go-pokemon.com/op/news/articles/51.html

Starting with the 2009–2010 tournament season, which begins September 1, 2009, Pokémon Organized Play will restrict the use of foreign-language cards at Premier Events, based on where those events take place. The Pokémon Trading Card Game is currently printed in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish. As English-language cards are distributed in the vast majority of markets worldwide, and more cards are printed in English than in any other language, English cards are legal for Premier Events in every market. Tournament legality at Premier Events for non-English sets is listed below. Only countries that run Premier Events are contained in this list.

Certain SP Pokemon released in the new "Rising Rivals" set have names which incorporate the Chinese numeral 四 (four), which is also used in the Japanese language. Are these cards not in fact "foreign-language cards" per the use of foreign language in their printing, and therefore due to become unplayable on September 1st, 2009 at Premier Events in regions where Japanese and Chinese are not PUI-designated languages [all regions other than Japan]?

 

[M_Liesik]

I can haz rules lawyer?

Level much?