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From: tut@cairo.Eng.Sun.COM (Bill "Bill" Tuthill)
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Subject: Re: Polyglot List Issue
Keywords: character sets
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Date: 31 Jan 91 00:32:49 GMT
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erik@srava.sra.co.jp (Erik M. van der Poel) writes:

> In ISO 10646, it is easy to mix Japanese and Chinese in one sentence.
> Can it be done in Unicode? (I ask, because I don't know.)

Just switch fonts from Kanji to Hanzi.  This is similar to what you
would do if you wanted to print the title of a book-- you'd switch
from roman to italics.  Unicode assumes that small differences between
Han characters (of identical meaning) is a font issue, not a character
coding issue.  Different fonts are favored in Japan and in China, just
as Times is popular in the US and Garamond is popular in France.

> However, Han unification may be quite useful.

Amen!  It's interesting that the Japanese delegation voted against
DIS 10646 because it didn't include Han unification.

Bill