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>[stroke count] is like having a dollar sign
>glyph with one stroke or two strokes through an S, or having one with
>a single vertical stroke that intersects the whole S, or extends vertically
>from the top and bottom arches without fully intersecting the S.

Stroke count, per se, is more of a handwriting issue.  Stroke position is
more important.

An example of a unification to which people have very strong objections
is that of the Japanese and Chinese simplified forms for "yo (ataeru) / yu4"
("to impart," "to").  The Chinese form has a horizontal stroke that does not
intersect the main stroke, whereas the horizontal stroke in the Japanese form
does intersect it.

The difference above is more serious than the dollar-sign variants
mentioned previously, since official modern simplified forms of
characters are more well-defined (and enforced) than traditional
variants.  (Food for thought:  have you heard of a US student
being criticized by a teacher for having the wrong number of bars
in a dollar sign?)

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John B. Melby
Fujitsu Limited, Yokohama
melby@yk.fujitsu.co.jp