> the issue is mainly academic when it comes to old texts. If it was just an academic concern, there could have been other solutions. It is more about how much

> the issue is mainly academic when it comes to old texts. If it was just an academic concern, there could have been other solutions. It is more about how much people care about the exact glyph in display, and Japaneses were particularly pedantic in my experience (even more so than Chineses). The Han unification itself was a well-intentioned but ultimately misguided effort to fit the massive Han characters into 16 bits. Another evidence that a 16-bit character set was so naive.