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account42 on Dec 6, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Debian opens a can of username worms

You still need to deal with "codepages" to differentiate between Japanese Unicode and Chinese Unicode even if it's called a language and not codepage now.

CorrectHorseBat on Dec 6, 2024 [–]

Han unification sucks indeed but if you get the wrong font it's still readable

numpad0 on Dec 7, 2024 | [–]

Sometimes, not always. Depends on how similar specific characters happen to be.

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