> > > Chinese text _must_ be displayed with Chinese font.  Japanese text
> > > _must_ be displayed with Japanese font.  
> > 
> > This is not undisputed.  Quotes of Chinese text in an otherwise
> > Japanese text are often, I'm told, all set in a Japanese font.
> 
> There are about 120,000,000 Japanese people.  It is natural a few of
> them have a bad habit to do so.  At least, such a habit is never
> allowed for textbook on Chinese language for Japanese students.  Or,
> do you think it is natural that Unicode cannot be used for such
> purposes?

This is microtypography already.  I think it depends on the amount of
text.  I'm quite sure that names of Chinese politicians in Japanese
newspapers are written with Japanese glyphs (and vice versa).


    Werner
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