Re:I Can’t Write My Name in Unicode
by anon4 on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @04:51AM
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But.. you already posted a solution to your problem - use chinese font for chinese and japanese font for japanese. There is no problem. I mean, you would also presumably use a western font for latin and another separate font for cyrillic, since japanese fonts universally have absolutely dreadful kerning on latin (and often omit cyrillic entirely).
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Having to know metadata about text is precisely what made the pre-unicode days so bad. If you're writing a word document, sure, choose your fonts, but if you're rendering a web page that doesn't happen to declare its language, things aren't so simple. (And if you're writing software meant to correctly handle user input in multiple languages, good luck...)