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by stuartcw 2987 days ago
I was once involved with a software project, actually the DOS version of Lotus 1-2-3 2.4J, which bundled some Japanese fonts that were licensed from a Taiwanese font maker. The QA manager told one of the staff to print out every character and check them. I thought it was crazy but the junior guy came back a few weeks later with a list of mistakes that he had found. They were reported to the maker and a new updated version was received. This was at the end of the era when software was distributed on physical media (CDs in this case) and providing updates was a costly business.
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Taiwan and Japan have different standard characters have some stylistic differences that few people are aware of! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification gives a nice table of some variations, if your OS's fonts support them!