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Comment by hibbelig

I understand that Han unification in Unicode has resulted in the same character encoding distinct glyphs, depending on the language in use.

So there would be a Japanese Kanji that looks similar to, but distinct from, a Chinese character. And both would be encoded as the same character in Unicode. And that character would look one way when included in a Japanese document and another way when included in a Chinese document.

If the document contains both Japanese and Chinese, and the character appears in both parts, would a Japanese user expect to find both occurrences when entering one of them?

parent hibbelig 6 years ago

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