On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote:
> And, it is not geeks but all average Japanese people who cannot read
> Chinese version of U+76F4.
So? This problem is *not* specific to Han Unification. Most North
Americans cannot read the Blackletter (aka Fraktur) version of U+005A, or
for that matter a Spencerian-calligraphy version of the same. (The
handwriting style I was taught was Spencerian [no relation!], and *I*
would have trouble with some of the weird uppercase forms now.)
The answer is, don't use a Chinese font to display characters to Japanese
readers, or a Blackletter or Spencerian font for North American readers.
> CJK Han Unification is a problem for
> average Japanese people, who don't know about encodings. They
> just read Japanese or Chinese texts, just feel characters are funny
> and just don't buy such products.
Then the incompetent suppliers who try to ignore the font issues will go
out of business, and the world will be a better place. Our job is to make
sure that Linux does *not* ignore these issues, so it can use a font that
is appropriate to the user. It is *not* our job to re-hash whether Han
Unification was a good idea -- that is not our decision.
Henry Spencer
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