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CJK Font rendering gaps
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index.html
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<style type="text/css">
tr:nth-child(2){
background: skyblue;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h2>1. Gaps between CJK glyphs</h2>
<p>Unicode Han characters, Kanji in Japanese, show different rendering results depending on local system settings. It is not just showing unfamiliar glyhs, but also showing identical glyphs with other codes, sometimes. For example, almost all Japanese would interpret the Chinese U+624d glyph as Japanese "オ" (Katakana, U+30AA), and get confused.</p>
<table>
<tr><th>language settings</th><th>U+5284</th><th>U+5784</th><th>U+585a</th><th>U+4e0e</th><th>U+624d</th></tr>
<tr><td>n/a (default)</td><td>劄</td><td>埴</td><td>塚</td><td>与</td><td>才</td></tr>
<tr lang="zh-CN"><td>Simplified Chineese (zh-CN)</td><td>劄</td><td>埴</td><td>塚</td><td>与</td><td>才</td></tr>
<tr lang="zh-TW"><td>Traditional Chinese (zh-TW)</td><td>劄</td><td>埴</td><td>塚</td><td>与</td><td>才</td></tr>
<tr lang="ja"><td>Japanese (ja)</td><td>劄</td><td>埴</td><td>塚</td><td>与</td><td>才</td></tr>
<tr lang="ko"><td>Korean (ko)</td><td>劄</td><td>埴</td><td>塚</td><td>与</td><td>才</td></tr>
</table>
<h2>2. The currency sign issue (specific to Windows)</h2>
<p> The Unicode character 'REVERSE SOLIDUS', a.k.a. backslash, is rendered as Japanese Yen sign on Japanese Windows PC, and the same code is rendered as Korean Won sign on Korean Windows PC.</p>
<table>
<tr><th>language settings</th><th>(U+005c) 1000</th></tr>
<tr><td>n/a (default)</td><td>\1000</td></tr>
<tr lang="ja"><td>Japanese (ja)</td><td>\1000</td></tr>
<tr lang="ko"><td>Korean (ko)</td><td>\1000</td></tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
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