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The article mentions "an example of 彁 mistakenly used in a digitized Taisho newspaper due to a faded printing of 彊", but to me that implies the symbol already e
by gs17 2mo ago
The article mentions "an example of 彁 mistakenly used in a digitized Taisho newspaper due to a faded printing of 彊", but to me that implies the symbol already existed before then.
- lidavidm 2mo agoIsn't that backwards? The nonexistent character is in the -digitized- version so presumably OCR or something got 彊 wrong, that's not saying that 彁 was used in the -print- version. Indeed, the source link is about exactly this: a crappy scan appears to have 彁 but a better copy reveals it was 彊.
- joemi 2mo agoI think you're both saying the same thing: the digitization of the article wouldn't have been the source, since 彁 would have had to exist before the digitization happened in order for the OCR to misread 彊 as 彁.
- usrnm 2mo agoMost kanji are a combination of several smaller parts called "radicals" in English. If you look at these two kanji through this lens, you will see that it's actually a very simple mistake, one existing radical is replaced by another existing radical. It is very easy to imagine software that was working exactly like that: interpreting kanji as a combination of radicals rather than individual unrelated symbols
- hunter2_ 2mo agoThis reminds me of the pregnant man emoji [0] but it turns out they decided to handle that in an unusual way [1] so not really. [0] https://emojipedia.org/pregnant-man https://emojipedia.org/pregnant-man [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/u7x3l9/comment/i5hqux0/ https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/u7x3l9/comment/...