Re:An Introduction to Writing Systems and Unicode
by ovciokko on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @02:20PM
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The texts in the images claimed to be Simplified Chinese are not really conforming the standard glyph shapes of hanzi as defined by the government of China; they look more like the Japanese standard shapes of kanji.
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Re:An Introduction to Writing Systems and Unicode
by mbrubeck on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @03:08PM
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Can you specify which characters you are talking about? I don't see any examples of Japanese-specific kanji in the Chinese images.
For example, the first image uses 沟 and 时 forms that are found only in simplified Chinese. In both Japanese and traditional Chinese, these are written 溝 and 時.
The images also correctly use traditional/simplified Chinese forms of 統/统. The Japanese shinjitai form [0] does not match either of them.
请 as shown in the image is similarly used only in simplified Chinese, not Japanese. (In Japanese, the traditional Chinese form is normally used in handwriting, and an alternate form of the 訁 radical is often used in printed text.)
Re:An Introduction to Writing Systems and Unicode
by ovciokko on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @06:46PM
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Thanks for your reply. I was wrong in that they are using the Japanese glyphs. The ones I've noticed are 次将及化等; I checked again and 次及化等 are actually Traditional Chinese glyphs, while 将 is Japanese glyph. It seems that these glyphs are a mix of multiple standards.
Re:An Introduction to Writing Systems and Unicode
by mbrubeck on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @09:18PM
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Thanks, I missed that 将 was shinjitai. I wonder what caused the weird mixture of glyphs in that example image.
Re:An Introduction to Writing Systems and Unicode
by dhosek on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @02:58PM
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One of the big complaints about Han-unification in Unicode is that simplified and traditional forms share the same code points so display of simplified vs traditional is up to the font to manage.
Re:An Introduction to Writing Systems and Unicode
by renhanxue on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @04:30PM
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That's not really accurate. An overwhelming majority of the simplified characters have had their own code points in Unicode ever since 1.0. Some more details here: https://r12a.github.io/scripts/chinese/