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I spoke with several Japanese people who said that some valid characters are not representable in Unicode. That means that it's not just a technical problem (e
by jeffdavis 15y ago
I spoke with several Japanese people who said that some valid characters are not representable in Unicode.
That means that it's not just a technical problem (expensive sort routines or inefficient encodings) -- it's a semantic problem.
- thristian 15y agoThe way I've heard it explained, there are some historical alternate versions of some characters (A Latin-alphabet equivalent might be the way we sometimes draw "a" with an extra curl across the top, and sometimes without) that have the exact same semantic meaning, and so they were 'unified' to a single code-point. Unfortunately. some people spell their names exclusively with one variant or the other, and Han unification makes that impossible in Unicode.
- adavies42 15y agoisn't the real problem that you can't guarantee correct rendering of ideograph text without specifying fonts? there are japanese kanji that are drawn differently from the chinese hanzi they're descended from, but they're the same from a unicode perspective. imagine if roman, greek, cyrillic, hebrew (aramaic), and ethiopian (ge'ez) were all assigned to the same group of code points and distinguishable only by font--they're all just variants of phoenician, after all....