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In article <2609@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp> mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta) writes:

>If I throw away a short e-mail message from Japan to Japanese
>friend living in China, how can my friend read the text with
>the appropriately shaped character?
>
>What if, the mail is stored in some mail box, mixed with Chinese
>mails? How can he print the entire mail box?

  If he can't read it, he has very severe personal problems.  

  I don't have any ability in Japanese whatsoever.  Never tried to
learn the language.  But I can read Japanese Kanji just fine -- no
problems in parsing or understanding the Kanji -- based strictly on my
knowledge of Chinese.  There are differences in stroke order and in
the aesthetic appearance of Chinese and Japanese renderings of the
same character, but those differences do NOT impair readability of the
character.

  Now I have no opinion about what ISO 10646 did and whether it was
right.  I do know that it will not affect readability.