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Re:Japanese toilet industry agrees to standardize complex bi... by jrockway on Thursday January 19, 2017 @09:11AM (#13435852)
> finding it will not help you finding it on the next machine you use

流す is just as much as an arbitrary pictogram as anything else. And it didn't even need a standardization process.

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Re:Japanese toilet industry agrees to standardize complex bi... by emodendroket on Thursday January 19, 2017 @09:17AM (#13435902)
Yeah but the odds you can read it if you aren't from East Asia are pretty low.

Also Japanese writing has gone through multiple standardizations.

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