Re: Hebrew language character set

[Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>]

"Ayende Rahien" <Dont@spam.me> writes:

> "David Starner" <dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu> wrote in message
> news:9aidu0$9281@news.cis.okstate.edu...
> > the Japenese (who use three differnt codes, and
> > oppose one unified code
> 
> Why do they oppose a unified code?

I don't know why they oppose a national unification project, but they
oppose Unicode because in the first version of the standard, the
glyphs which were unified with the Chinese variants were printed in
Chinese style only.  Since then, Japanese people tend to vigorously
campaign against CJK unification, claiming that it results in
readability problems and so on.  Surprisingly, Chinese and Korean
people seem to have less problems with unification.

Of course, the solution is not a Unicode version without CJK
unification, but a proper Unicode font featuring the Japanese version
of the glyphs.  This might result in the wrong version of the glyphs
displayed in Chinese portions, but even the Chinese don't seem to be
bothered by this.