Re: Unicode is optimal for Chinese/Japanese multilingual texts

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
By author:    Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In newsgroup: linux.utf8
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> At Sat, 07 Apr 2001 18:10:18 +0100,
> Markus Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > I never insisted on unification of Japanese and Chinese glyph styles,
> 
> Ok, then I don't insist unification of Latin and Cyrillic.
> (My intention of the (unreasonable) opinion was to insist Han glyph
> unification is as unreasonable as Latin-Cyrillic glyph unification.)
> 

I don't think you would find anyone disagreeing with you there.  Note,
however, that a font creator (especially an author of terminal bitmap
fonts) might find it convenient to represent U+0050 LATIN CAPITAL
LETTER P, U+03A1 GREEK CAPITAL LETTER RHO, and U+0420 CYRILLIC CAPITAL
LETTER ER with the same font position.  Unicode to font mapping is
many-to-many, and any font system really needs to take that into
consideration.

        -hpa
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