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Han Unification
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In short, characters that have a "similar" shape and meaning in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and/or Vietnamese were a single Unicode code point, hence the idea of "Unification".
The obvious advantage of this unification is to save space as well as being logical as after all these characters have the same history.
The disavantage is that the exact character shape may be hard to determine we don't know which language it is (there may be variation even in a single language). Sorting is made a bit more difficult.
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Character sets > Unicode
Article submitted by: Thierry Sourbier
Last modified: 2008-05-03
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