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Re:KanjiVG – SVGs of Kanji character strokes including order... by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @08:44AM (#34895307)
> In case anyone is wondering why different glyphs have the same unicode code point, and how an app is supposed to decide which one to render... Well I don't know the reason for the first question actually

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification

My understanding is that this is basically "white guy says all Asian writing looks the same" in standards form and is largely regarded as a terrible idea.

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Re:KanjiVG – SVGs of Kanji character strokes including order... by kevin_thibedeau on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @09:13AM (#34895785)
Unicode had a builtin language tagging system to resolve glyph variants. Han unification was implemented with this in mind. Then the tagging got deprecated in a later version.
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Re:KanjiVG – SVGs of Kanji character strokes including order... by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @09:26AM (#34896004)
The more I learn about unicode, the more it looks like Bad Ideas: The Standard to me. The only good part of it is the UTF-8 encoding and that was just Thompson and Pike sitting down and thinking about the problem for an hour.
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Re:KanjiVG – SVGs of Kanji character strokes including order... by kevin_thibedeau on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @10:56PM (#34906575)
UTF-8 is just a simplified improvement on another variable encoding. They didn't conjure it from nothing.
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