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If what I have heard about the Unicode standard is accurate, Chinese
simplified forms are not distinguished from Chinese unsimplified forms
when they are effectively equivalent.  Since the radicals for "eating"
and "metal" have simplified forms radically differing from the unsimplified
printed variants, a Japanese may not be able to distinguish certain
characters displayed using a Chinese character set (although usually
they should be distinguishable through context).

Of course, there is one major flaw in the preliminary Unicode version:  the
Japanese simplified form of "sakura" (ying1hua1 de ying1) is not included.
Since the word "sakura" is common in Japanese surnames, this necessitates
the use of a supplemental character set.  (This omission is blatant enough
that it will probably be corrected in a subsequent version.)

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