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Re:How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode charac... by nv-vn on Saturday June 25, 2016 @09:19PM (#11978949)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the Han Unification project more about unifying semantically distinct, but visually identical characters under the same codepoint (rather than grouping together similar-looking codepoints as the article suggests)? As far as I'm aware it's more along the lines of reusing the codepoint for 'a' when encoding both English and Spanish text. Am I mistaken in thinking this?

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