It's not an ideal fix, but Unicode has had "variation selectors" for a few versions now which can force specific CJK variations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V

It's not an ideal fix, but Unicode has had "variation selectors" for a few versions now which can force specific CJK variations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variation_Selectors_%28Unicode_block%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variation_Selectors_%28Unicode... Variation selectors are getting a good workout/testing technically in emoji at least (a lot of emoji are "just" "old" Unicode codepoints with a ZWJ and the variation selector known as the emoji variation selector to tell systems to always show it in "emoji styles"). I can't speak for how well it works in practice for CJK languages as I don't know them (more reason I appreciate emoji for letting me test compatibility with hard parts of UTF-8 in ways that I can read and most users want), but I do appreciate that there's at least the idea for/part of a fix in "recent" Unicode. I'm also imagining it is not a fun thing to implement in practice, as Unicode at this point maintains a massive database just for it: https://www.unicode.org/ivd/ https://www.unicode.org/ivd/