>Why does Unicode need to represent a half-written Japanese word? If it's half-written, you're still in the process of writing it, and this is entirely the doma

>Why does Unicode need to represent a half-written Japanese word? If it's half-written, you're still in the process of writing it, and this is entirely the domain of your text input system. Drafts or word documents (which are immensely simpler if just stored as unicode). Then there's the fact that people occasionally do funky things with kanji anyway, so you're doing everyone a favour by letting them half-write a word anyway.