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by vore 916 days ago
вє¢αυѕє ιт ƒєєℓѕ ℓιкє яєα∂ιηg єηgℓιѕн тєχт тнαт ℓσσкѕ ℓιкє тнιѕ! It might still be legible, but in some contexts (e.g. official) it's reasonable to want your language to be accurately represented.

Not to mention sometimes you also get kana displaying in a Japanese font and kanji displaying in a stylistically different Chinese font and it looks awful.

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Awful at worst, I should say. And as others said, correct uses of `lang` attributes and system-default preferences alleviate most stylistic issues. It looks awful only when applications have a mismatching preference (e.g. Japanese websites that never think about Chinese users).