Re:Abe explains choice of Reiwa for next era name
by glandium on Monday April 01, 2019 @02:18AM
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FWIW, the version where the lower part is like マ is also used in Japanese. Different calligraphic styles can have big visual differences.
Re:Abe explains choice of Reiwa for next era name
by needle0 on Monday April 01, 2019 @03:56AM
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Much like how the lowercase a or g can have multiple appearances in the latin alphabet.
Re:Abe explains choice of Reiwa for next era name
by thaumasiotes on Monday April 01, 2019 @11:35AM
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Speaking of this, my computer just switched from displaying Chinese by default to displaying Japanese. I was able to configure Firefox back to Chinese, but couldn't figure out how to set Windows 10 back. It only really affects me if I happen to be typing Chinese in Notepad, but still, it's annoying. Do you know how?
In Japanese, the character is commonly written with a vertical final stroke (at least in print), whereas in Chinese it's a diagonally down and to the right. However, they are encoded as the same in Unicode. What gets displayed depends on the font choice, possibly aided by somewhat hacky language hints.
This particular character is the second example in the list of "Examples of language-dependent glyphs" in the Wikipedia article [1].
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification#Examples_of_...