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Because most (esp. Japanese) people don't know how to use Unicode properly, or don't care. They just build without defining UNICODE and naively assume your loca
by ranger_danger 3y ago
Because most (esp. Japanese) people don't know how to use Unicode properly, or don't care. They just build without defining UNICODE and naively assume your local codepage to be CP932 because 99% of their target audience is exactly this (and hence seemingly unaffected).
- KingMob 3y agoWell, Unicode's Han unification process kind of screwed Japan, so that's somewhat understandable. It makes it hard to use Unicode for historical documents with older variants, documents using more than one CJK language (like talking about Chinese in Japanese), and worst of all, a lot of theoretically-compatible CJK fonts look wrong because they chose Chinese glyphs. There's many ways Unicode is an improvement over what came before, but they screwed up with Han unification.