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It's so annoying how "CJK" groups Hangul with completely different writing systems. And even makes people think they're similar.
by oehtXRwMkIs 5y ago
It's so annoying how "CJK" groups Hangul with completely different writing systems. And even makes people think they're similar.
- gumby 5y agoWell, Hanja can also appear inline in otherwise Hangul texts. Vietnamese has a similar issue though their use of an extended Roman alphabet ended up in a slightly different place, Unicode-wise. I don't remember the decision but I believe it might have been at the request of some RoK people. There might also be an issue if old Hanja-only texts need to be handled differently from Hanzi rendering/processing. That would not surprise me. Still, I agree it seems pretty weird.
- lmm 5y agoHangul and Hiragana are not so dissimilar AFAIK? But the point of saying "CJK" is the other direction: codepoints subject to Han unification may represent Hanzi, Kanji or Hanja.
- anoncake 5y agoHangul is actually just an alphabet. Each square hangul character is composed of 2-3 letters. Hiragana is a syllabary.