Re: Talk about Unicode Myths...

From: John Hudson (tiro@tiro.com)
Date: Wed Mar 20 2002 - 13:02:51 EST


At 09:11 3/20/2002, John H. Jenkins wrote:

>This doesn't reflect, however, what actual Japanese users want (or, at
>least, would find acceptable). The correct algorithm is to display kanji
>with Japanese glyphs if at all possible.
>
>Again, the typographic tradition in Japan is to write kanji with Japanese
>glyphs *even* when Chinese is the language being written.

Okay, so it's a user setting in the browser: select Asian URL font.

John Hudson

Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com
Vancouver, BC tiro@tiro.com

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