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Asian languages invent new characters

By Scott Granneman / 6 July 2006 6 July 2006 / commonplace book, language & literature, technology / japan, language, social_change, web_development

From Tim Bray’s “On the Goodness of Unicode” (6 April 2003):

Another problem is that in these parts of the world [China, Japan, Korea], it is not unheard-of to invent new characters. The Japanese word for such charaacters is gaiji; historically they were invented for personal or company names.

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