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Re:The flaws of thinking "Just use Unicode" by tsuraan on Monday November 16, 2009 @12:20PM (#944780)
It's sort of interesting how unicode solved your problem, but totally ignored the exact same problem in east asia. It's still not possible to have a single unicode text file with japanese and chinese kanji in it. The official unicode answer is to not use plain text; use a rich text format that allows the specification of fonts instead. I sort of think unicode would be a much better global standard if it hadn't tried to merge the different kanji used by over a billion people.

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