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This isn't a uniquely CJK problem, see my other comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29024422 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29024422 The other a
by jhanschoo 5y ago
This isn't a uniquely CJK problem, see my other comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29024422 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29024422
The other approach is to assign to each language distinct codepoints, but I guess the current approach is better for backward compatibility with pre-Unicode, and less redundancy in Latin script documents.