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Re:An Introduction to Writing Systems and Unicode by dhosek on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @02:58PM (#47605017)
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.
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Re:An Introduction to Writing Systems and Unicode by renhanxue on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @04:30PM (#47606153)
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/
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Re:An Introduction to Writing Systems and Unicode by dhosek on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @05:36PM (#47606841)
That’s good to know. I’ve heard the complaint offered many times, but don’t have the necessary language skills to know otherwise.
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