On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote:
> You misunderstand what I mean. Ok, it is natural because you don't
> know CJK languages. I am not talking about historic ideographs.
> I have to explain more.
I know some CJK, but still don't see the problem.
> In Unicode, CJK characters with same meaning and similar shape is
> unified. For example, U+9AA8 (ideograph 'bone') unifies 0x3947 from
> GB2312 (Mainland China), 0x586C from CNS11643-1 (Taiwan), 0x397C from
> JISX0208 (Japan), and 0x4D69 from KSX1001 (Korea). However, though
> these character share the common origin, today they have different
> shape and CJK people cannot tolerate.
This simply means that you must choose a font that suits your taste.
And the problem is not limited to CJK. The shape of latin characters used
in Italy are different from the ones used in Germany, or in France. Some
of these variations are acceptable to an italian user, others are not. An
italian user will choose fonts which are acceptable to him.
P.
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