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What are the benefits of this approach compared to a ligature at the font-level?
by mappu 8y ago
What 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".