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An Introduction to Writing Systems and Unicode

by mariuz on 3/29/2026, 5:43:52 PM

https://r12a.github.io/scripts/tutorial/part2

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by: ks2048

This site has been a gem for a long time for Unicode and language-related topics. Just as good to link to the top-level,<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;r12a.github.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;r12a.github.io&#x2F;</a>

4/1/2026, 6:09:26 PM


by: ovciokko

The texts in the images claimed to be Simplified Chinese are not really conforming the standard glyph shapes of hanzi as defined by the government of China; they look more like the Japanese standard shapes of kanji.

4/1/2026, 6:20:40 PM