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I wonder what the purpose is of adding more and more symbols to a standard that was originally intended to represent texts in written languages. It almost feels
by fjfaase 6y ago
I wonder what the purpose is of adding more and more symbols to a standard that was originally intended to represent texts in written languages. It almost feels like it is the easy part of 'improving' the standard: Adding more symbols, while at the same time there are still many problems with missing characters for existing character sets. https://www.w3.org/International/articles/missing-char-glyph/index.en https://www.w3.org/International/articles/missing-char-glyph...
- lifthrasiir 6y agoThe document was last updated in 2003. Nowadays Unicode provides a solution to the gaiji problem: the Ideographic Variation Database [1]. For unencoded Han characters using Ideographic Description Sequences as ligatures is now quite viable. [1] https://unicode.org/ivd/ https://unicode.org/ivd/