#i feel like i'm reading niche community drama btwn the very specific overlap btwn linguists n compsci people and it's FASCINATING
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due to a wikipedia rabbithole, i have been reading abt what is apparently called "the han unification problem" for unicode, which talks abt the current problem of the fact that written chinese (both charsets), japanese, korean, n vietnamese all originate from the same writing system, but due to years of history, now are basically "these things broadly overlap, but the distinctions matter to the people involved" if that makes sense.
anyway, i kept reading it like, "why does this article keep saying this is a political thing. how is this such a contentious issue" until the article said that chinese speakers tend to be ambivalent towards this issue specifically bc they get entirely separate encodings for their two different character sets (rather than treat them as visual variants of the same character), and i was like, "...ah. called out."
#i feel like i'm reading niche community drama btwn the very specific overlap btwn linguists n compsci people and it's FASCINATING#tbh the article calling me out did put the whole issue into perspective for me bc i have an intimate knowledge of the whole like#traditional n simplified character sets n the context they split over#n how that's tied in with very real modern political relationships... or... like something i'm not certain how to word it#n i've given it much more thought than is probably worth my energy to both arguing n accepting the way this issue feels simultaneously#incredibly pointlessly small (borderline frivolous) and yet also incredibly important for intangible personal n cultural reasons#so like. knowing that i can better understand how the other languages might feel abt their variances being snubbed#the worm speaks#anyway i just thought it was really funny that it felt like the article was calling me out specifically for having essentially cn privilege
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