December 2008
Intermediate to advanced
912 pages
33h 22m
English
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Chapter 3: Character Set Standards
the relationship between simplied and traditional forms, which is not always a one-to-
one relationship, must also be maintained.
I predict that within 25 years there will be an initiative to unify or normalize ideographs
across all locales that use them. To a great extent, Unicode and the way in which its CJK
Unied Ideograph blocks capture character-level distinctions are serving as the spark for
such an eort.
In other words, I predict that at some point many years into the future, a single glyph
per CJK Unied Ideograph code point will become acceptable for all CJKV locales. Aer
all, the Web and other globalization activities are serving as a catalyst to make the world
a smaller place, and thus forcing or enabling cultures to interact to a greater extent than
previously possible. When cultures interact, they exert inuence on each other. Writ-
ing systems are easily inuenced, especially if there is something to gain through their
unication.
Bear in mind that until this takes place, it is prudent to preserve locale-specic glyph
distinctions, and single fonts that are intended to support multiple locales must include
more than one glyph for many Unicode code points, along with a mechanism for switch-
ing glyphs based on locale.
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