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Comment by vova_hn2

3 days ago

If I'm writing a text about Russian language in English, I can easily include an example in Russian: "привет, как дела?" and it will be displayed correctly.

But, if I was writing about Mandarin Chinese in Japanese, I just wouldn't be able to do it using a simple text input (like HN comment form). I would need more advanced formatting tools to make sure that both Chinese and Japanese characters are displayed correctly.

Because, as far a I understand, one Unicode symbol could correspond to both a Hanzi character and a Kanji character. Which character will be displayed is only determined by font. Since HN doesn't allow me to select different fonts for different parts of my comment, it is simply impossible to create a comment that includes both Japanese and Chinese characters.