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Imagine if those "designers" suddenly got interested in the Chinese language. - "Hey, why is the character for 'sun' so boxy? The sun is round! Let's make the
by acadapter 5y ago
Imagine if those "designers" suddenly got interested in the Chinese language.
- "Hey, why is the character for 'sun' so boxy? The sun is round! Let's make the character a bit rounder! New Unicode position!"
- "Oh, but you forgot to remove the line in the middle, I need a new Unicode position for my variant!"
- "Wait! In my newly designed font, I just replaced the original one. What do I do with the two new Unicode characters? And should I keep the horizontal line in the middle?"
- salamandersauce 5y agoIt only took about 1000 years for designers to stop mucking about around with Chinese characters. Hopefully by the year 3000 the save icon will also be cemented.
- quixoticaxolotl 5y agoIronically, there have been copious attempts at streamlining Chinese writing, the most successful attempt being simplified Chinese, so this isn't as strong a rebuttal as you'd think
- hollerith 5y agoSure, but such attempts don't try to replace an ideogram because the object of daily life that inspired it is obsolete.