Unicode and Han Unification

Around two weeks ago, I had the privilege of seeing Ken Lunde give a presentation on Ten Mincho, a new Japanese font from Adobe. One part of the presentation — talking about the font’s ability to maintain differences between base characters and CJK Compatibility Ideographs — seemed a little beyond a few people, including myself.

So, over the past week I dove into research to understand it, and I thought it might be nice to share with everyone what I learned about a little thing called Han Unification and one of Ten Mincho’s best features. Read more

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