Re:A mistake that killed Japan's software industry? (2023)
by Onavo on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @07:47PM
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Well, the world is on UTF-8 now, they can extend the standard and put the Japanese characters these. There's plenty of space since it's variable length.
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Re:A mistake that killed Japan's software industry? (2023)
by wffurr on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @08:17PM
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Sure but "they" can't undo the billions of already authored documents and the thousands of overlapping fonts.
Re:A mistake that killed Japan's software industry? (2023)
by hnfong on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @11:23AM
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It's actually what they did. I heard from people involved in the CJK-unification project that the Japanese representatives insisted this be done as a condition for their participation.
Given that there were thousands of such characters, some characters slipped through and the same code point was used by both Chinese and Japanese.
The Japanese have been bickering about the handful of those cases ever since.