> It's just that they followed official Japanese standards, and therefore unified too many from the point of view of other languages. And they're still complai

> It's just that they followed official Japanese standards, and therefore unified too many from the point of view of other languages. And they're still complaining about the handful of cases that were missed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29022906 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29022906 ---- Another mistake IMHO was that they accepted too many "dictionary characters", i.e. the ones only seen once or twice in some obscure dictionary -- they often had explanations like "an obscure form of [common character]".