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Re: Unicode, character ambiguities
Kaixo!
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 02:48:27AM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote:
>> People choose the fonts in function of their needs.
>> Those "problems" are *not* encoding problems; only font problems.
>>
>> Saying that unicode is not good because the above reasons is nearly as stupid
>> as saying unicode is not good for latin based languages as it doesn't
>> disambiguate between serif and sans serif styles.
>
> Every reader of English can read any Roman characters in any reasonable
> font. The same is not true of CJK variants, so the comparison doesn't
> really work.
I'm very dubious about that affirmation.
CJK characters unified are actually the same, with only idionsyncrasic
differences. A person not able to recognize them won't be able to read
a real life text with some fancy fonts (like in ads for example), or a
hand written text, which have variations often greater.
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