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		ant6n on April 8, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The history of UTF-8 as told by Rob Pike (2003) > While it would have been nice, in an ideal world, to be able to encode and display all 51 (at least) variations in the second kanji for the surname Watanabe [1],... Unicode has gotten so big, isn’t this included by now?

bmn__ on April 8, 2021 [–]

http://enwp.org/Z-variant

lifthrasiir on April 8, 2021 | [–]

Also see the IVD [1]. Indeed both 邉 (U+9089) and 邊 (U+908A) are exceptionally variable characters, the first having 32 variation sequences (the record as of 2020-11-06) and the second having 21 variation sequences.

[1] https://unicode.org/ivd/

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