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You are half right, just like unicode. IIRC you can mostly translate Kanji and Hanzi characters and they are almost 1:1 but you need to know whether to use a Ja
by wisty 2y ago
You are half right, just like unicode. IIRC you can mostly translate Kanji and Hanzi characters and they are almost 1:1 but you need to know whether to use a Japanese or Chinese font, and unicode just assume you have the right font IIRC (and good luck if a span of text has both for some reason).
Like, image if coordonner (french), coordinate (English) and coördinate (variant) all were encoded.as the same bytes.
- hnfong 2y agoIMHO this is as stupid as a Italian complaining about Americans using English fonts to display their language. As I mentioned in another comment, there already are separate Japanese and Chinese code points for most CJK characters. It's just a handful of cases where for whatever reason the same code points were used (maybe they forgot to separate some characters due to human error), and the Japanese (it's always the Japanese) has been bickering about the situation ever since.