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Re:Text Is the Universal Interface by rcoveson on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @10:11PM (#33103520)
I can’t tell from your comment, but the only thing I can think of that you might be referring to is Han unification?
Re:Text Is the Universal Interface by lmm on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @10:57PM (#33103822)
Yep. Han unification in practice means unicode-based programs replace Japanese characters with Chinese characters that look different (and ugly). The unicode consortium alleges there are workarounds like switching fonts but none of them have ever been effectively implemented in practice; at best you get a program that will display Japanese correctly (at the cost of displaying Chinese poorly) if some obscure configuration option is set.