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If CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER A deserves a code point despite being so similar to LATIN SMALL LETTER A, why doesn't a Japanese character that actually looks differen
by lozenge 4y ago
If CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER A deserves a code point despite being so similar to LATIN SMALL LETTER A, why doesn't a Japanese character that actually looks different from a Chinese one get a codepoint? And the idea that something can have the "same meaning" across two languages is very wooly.
- astrange 4y agoWhy don't Japanese characters in seal script or handwriting get different codepoints from mincho font characters? They look different too. Sometimes looking visually different doesn't matter because if you know how to write them by stroke order, you'll still be able to read it (which is how handwriting works, I think; I'm pretty bad at reading that…) Hanzi simplification in the Mainland also complicated things, since I doubt they wanted to make all of those into different characters.