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by zinekeller 641 days ago
> Claiming you should not assume any name can be spelled in Unicode is absurd as well.

China (and Japan, and to a certain extent Korea and Viet Nam) exists? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naming_laws_in_China#Notable_c...

I'm pretty sure that patio11, having spent his life in Japan, would know that technology like SING glyphlets exists because of this exact issue.

(and before you answer "what are you talking about, it is in Unicode?", these characters are literally added after the relevant issue surfaced, and some characters like 𱅒 (U+31152) are recent additions that don't even render properly)