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Unicode is the sane choice, sure, but it doesn't just work. Not with CJK Han Unification for the least.
by jack1243star 3y ago
Unicode is the sane choice, sure, but it doesn't just work. Not with CJK Han Unification for the least.
- thriftwy 3y agoCJK countries had 25 years now to either work with Unicode WG or roll out their own approach. I'm not sure who can do that for them if they live with Unicode en masse.
- jack1243star 3y ago> work with Unicode WG I don't see how can it be done with backward compatibility? The ship has sailed. I'd wager that Unicode is actively influencing Gen-Z CJK language users by introducing subtle character errors. I've seen elementary school students confused by differences between what they see in text books and on screen, and write wrong characters (because the online dictionary picked the wrong font).
- aleph_minus_one 3y ago> I don't see how can it be done with backward compatibility? The ship has sailed. There exist other encodings for CJK characters than Unicode: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=CJK_characters&oldid=1180468573#Encoding https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=CJK_characters&ol...
- account42 3y agoPerhaps the Unicode consortium were really visionaries forseeing the actual unification of the character sets.
- grotorea 3y agoI what the previous poster said counts as social engineering not clairvoyance.
- thriftwy 3y agoThey can have a different set(s) of CJK characters outside BMP. There's plenty of room if they are confident they need these. Or perhaps some combining characters to turn a C character into Japanese preferred form, etc.