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> For everyone else, UTF is a blessing. Except people who want to use Japanese and not have it render weirdly, something that was easy in any internationalised
by lmm 2y ago
> For everyone else, UTF is a blessing.
Except people who want to use Japanese and not have it render weirdly, something that was easy in any internationalised software that used the traditional codepage system, but is practically impossible in Unicode-based software.
- Retr0id 2y agoWhere can I learn more about this issue?
- zokier 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification
- p_l 2y agoProbably referring to so-called "Han unification" which tried to use same codepoints for different glyphs to reduce code space for ideograms derived from Chinese ones. But that only causes confusion because you need to provide external information which way to interpret them, just like a code page
- eviks 2y agoHow is it impossible if you Unicode has language tags?
- lmm 2y agoIt's impossible because Unicode-based programs don't bother implementing support for language tags, much less testing that support.