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Huh I never knew about the Han Unification project -- seeing as I only know simplified/traditional Chinese, I'm lucky enough to not have noticed any incorrect r
by e63f67dd-065b 3y ago
Huh I never knew about the Han Unification project -- seeing as I only know simplified/traditional Chinese, I'm lucky enough to not have noticed any incorrect rendering in my daily usage.
What's the intended solution for encoding text that uses Chinese and Japanese at the same time? For example, in an article discussing the differences between said texts? Is there some kind of hacky workaround, emoji colour selection style, or are you doomed to using pictures?
This also reminds me a lot of the early "auto-detect encoding" tools long ago that tried to guess the encoding based on frequency distributions. There's a good reason to not do that to unified codepoints for CJK, but I wonder if there's a more sophisticated backwards-compatible solution here.
Edit: looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variant_Chinese_characters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variant_Chinese_characters , some of these differences are really splitting hairs; if you gave me a text with some of the simplified characters swapped out with some of these variants, I would honestly not be able to tell the difference. There's probably more variation in the Chinese fonts out there than I can gleam from the article. I'm not convinced that some of these characters have a non-artistic difference that a fellow Chinese on the street will be able to tell apart.
- pavlov 3y ago> “What's the intended solution for encoding text that uses Chinese and Japanese at the same time?” For web documents, you can explicitly mark the language and let the browser pick the correct font. Can be applied to any element: <span lang=“ja”>…</span>