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And this is another case where our world is culturally biased to "the West". It doesn't stop at the lowercase letters saving data when compressed and being at a

And this is another case where our world is culturally biased to "the West". It doesn't stop at the lowercase letters saving data when compressed and being at an advantage. Take UTF-8, for example, and think about the difference between latin and other scripts. And then there is the whole Pandoras Box of Han Unification...

lioeters 3y ago
For others like me who might be curious about the Han Unification controversy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification#Rationale_and_controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification#Rationale_and_... > In 1993, the Japan Electronic Industries Development Association (JEIDA) published a pamphlet titled "未来の文字コード体系に私達は不安をもっています" (We are feeling anxious for the future character encoding system JPNO 20985671), summarizing major criticism against the Han Unification approach adopted by Unicode.
- lifthrasiir 3y ago
  And yet the same criticism is now directed to the Japan government, because Japan is trying to define the unified character set for name characters and that necessarily demands some sort of unifications [1]. [1] https://mainichi.jp/articles/20231231/k00/00m/040/131000c https://mainichi.jp/articles/20231231/k00/00m/040/131000c (Japanese, also paywalled but at least the first portion is visible)