Unicode sorting is hard and why browsers added special emoji matching to regexp

Re:Unicode sorting is hard and why browsers added special em... by oehtXRwMkIs on Monday June 28, 2021 @02:05AM (#27658608)

It's so annoying how "CJK" groups Hangul with completely different writing systems. And even makes people think they're similar.

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Re:Unicode sorting is hard and why browsers added special em... by gumby on Monday June 28, 2021 @02:14AM (#27658658)

Well, Hanja can also appear inline in otherwise Hangul texts. Vietnamese has a similar issue though their use of an extended Roman alphabet ended up in a slightly different place, Unicode-wise. I don't remember the decision but I believe it might have been at the request of some RoK people.

There might also be an issue if old Hanja-only texts need to be handled differently from Hanzi rendering/processing. That would not surprise me.

Still, I agree it seems pretty weird.

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Re:Unicode sorting is hard and why browsers added special em... by lmm on Monday June 28, 2021 @03:00AM (#27658852)

Hangul and Hiragana are not so dissimilar AFAIK? But the point of saying "CJK" is the other direction: codepoints subject to Han unification may represent Hanzi, Kanji or Hanja.

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Re:Unicode sorting is hard and why browsers added special em... by anoncake on Monday June 28, 2021 @04:53PM (#27667962)

Hangul is actually just an alphabet. Each square hangul character is composed of 2-3 letters. Hiragana is a syllabary.

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