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Re:The UTF-8-Everywhere Manifesto by sanxiyn on Sunday April 29, 2012 @06:37PM (#3907333)
I am a Korean user (K in CJK), and no one, I repeat, no one, care about Han unification here.

I heard that it is different in China and Japan though.

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Re:The UTF-8-Everywhere Manifesto by derleth on Sunday April 29, 2012 @09:30PM (#3907652)
Probably because modern Korean text is Hangul, which is not really derived from the Han characters Chinese and Japanese have in common.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangul

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_characters

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Re:The UTF-8-Everywhere Manifesto by kenmazy on Monday April 30, 2012 @12:03AM (#3907973)
Hanja is widely used in modern Korea.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanja

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