[GNC-dev] Questions about */guide/figures/basics_AccountRelationships.svg

[john]

> On Sep 13, 2023, at 18:01, Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
> 
> Even then, I see what look like some Chinese only fonts with an insane # of glyphs by comparison.

Adrien,

Perhaps a bit of a digression, but they're probably not Chinese-only. Unicode organizes east asian scripts as Chinese-Japanese-Korean or CJK. It supports almost 98,000 characters and variations, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJK_Unified_Ideographs. A subset of 21,000 code points are encoded in the CJK Unified Block https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJK_Unified_Ideographs_(Unicode_block), providing "most common CJK ideographs used in modern" asian languages. That might seem an insane number to people familiar only with European writing, but since the characters represent words, not composable phonemes, proficient writers would likely consider it a bit limiting to use only those characters.
 
Regards,
John Ralls