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thaumasiotes on June 23, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode...

I do know about the issue; it causes problems for me. But I couldn't let the claim that all semantically equivalent characters were unified pass.

> the stylistically different ones usually belong to the same codepoint

Fair enough. Do you happen to know why 青 and 靑 weren't unified?

msbarnett on June 23, 2016 [–]

Han Unification "rules" were an inconsistent mess, but I do know that in Japanese 靑 was at one time a printer's simplification of 青, so you could find either in texts, and the Consortium tended to encode a character separately if you could find printed examples of both in the same language.

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