Hi,
> What we need are a few complete unifonts in consistent styles with no
> differentiation between regions. If there is a regional bias, then one
> bias per font, not a mixture.
>
> However, Japanese users might prefer a different unifont than Chinese
> readers, and in case of multilingual mixed text, as in C+J textbooks, tags
> can be used to load different fonts for different languages.
I suspect you don't understand difference between Variant and typeface.
IMO, CJK people can have a common typeface (i.e., boldness, serif
policy, and so on). However, CJK people cannot have a common Variant.
"Variant" is a technical term to indicate a nature of Han Ideogram,
not a daily noun.
If we were have a common typeface _and_ common Variant, we could
have a common font for CJK. However, this is not true.
Sure, I agree with your sentence, with using proper term to avoid
confusion and substituting "Japanese users might prefer" with "Japanese
users need".
For example, a Chinese textbook for Japanese people will have a
sentence like:
<U+76F4 in Japanese style> is written as <U+76F4 in Chinese style>
in Chinese.
A Japanese textbook for non-Japanese people will have a sentence like:
<U+76F4 in Japanese style> means straight or immediate. Please
note you should not use <U+76F4 in Chinese style> if you'd like
to communicate with Japanese people because they cannot read it.
Such texts can be written using language tags.
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