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The new name just uses standard characters, but what you're probably referring to is the fact that Unicode 12.1 will have a character for the two of them compre
by fenomas 8y ago
The new name just uses standard characters, but what you're probably referring to is the fact that Unicode 12.1 will have a character for the two of them compressed into one glyph.
Details: http://blog.unicode.org/2018/09/new-japanese-era.html http://blog.unicode.org/2018/09/new-japanese-era.html
Compressed glyphs like that are sometimes used on paperwork and whatnot, but everyday usage just uses the standard characters.
- mappu 8y agoWhat are the benefits of this approach compared to a ligature at the font-level?
- fenomas 8y agoI'm not competent to answer that, but the "merged glyph" versions of the other four modern era names date from older encodings like EUC and shift-JIS, and are presumably in unicode for compatibility. So the rationale for adding a new one may just be extending that set.
- masklinn 8y agoThe square / single-glyph version is only used in some / limited contexts, in most contexts (including the emperor's eventual posthumous name) heisei would be written and displayed "normally".