> basically no one uses Eastern ideograms in the West That’s false. There is a lot of students of CJK languages in European universities as Japanese and more r

> basically no one uses Eastern ideograms in the West That’s false. There is a lot of students of CJK languages in European universities as Japanese and more recently Korean as popular language. Chinese and Japanese can be learn in some high-school too. There are publishers publishing books containing such characters (e.g. You Feng in Paris). And of course the diaspora and heritage learners... That a lot of people, even more in countries with significant East-Asian population like Australia or the US.