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Every discussion we ever had about going to Unicode: "Is it bidirectional compatible with SJIS?" "No." "OK, so when it breaks, what characters does it break on?
by patio11 12y ago
Every discussion we ever had about going to Unicode: "Is it bidirectional compatible with SJIS?" "No." "OK, so when it breaks, what characters does it break on?" "People's names, mostly." "... And why is this being considered?" "It is very, very convenient for white people. Almost all of their stuff works out of the box."
- yongjik 12y agoI wouldn't say it's convenient for white people. Being able to write Japanese on all the non-Japanese people's stuff (basically, most websites and open-source softwares) should be mostly useful to the Japanese.