On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> If I understand correctly, this is a font problem. If you had a
> font that contained the correct glyph for each Unicode character,
> then the display would be correct. The problem is that you are
> trying to use a font that does not contain all the glyphs you need.

The issue is that as part of the CJK unification, ideograms that meant
the same thing in the different languages were assigned the same Unicode
code point, even though they were written slightly differently in each
of the languages. So, if you're displaying Japanese text, it's all fine;
just use a Japanese font. If you're displaying Chinese, just use a
Chinese font. But what if you're displaying both? If you use a Japanese
font, U+wxyz looks fine for Japanese, but if the Chinese text happens to
use U+wxyz also, it doesn't look right. You need to use a Chinese font
for the Chinese text, and a Japanese one for the Japanese text. But how
does the computer know what language something is written in?

I don't know any examples off the top of my head, but maybe someone else
here does...
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