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by matvore 2194 days ago
I believe the plan behind the Chinese characters in Unicode was always that different hanzi-using languages had different renderings of certain characters, and that rendering it properly would be up to the font.
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Yes, but that was botched from the start. Latin alphabets include various "font variants" in unicode, you can write C, β„‚, β„­, π’ž, β ‰, 𝐂, β…­, 𝙲 and maybe a few more…

I guess the accusations of Unicode being somewhat centered on western languages do have a point.