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derleth on April 30, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: The UTF-8-Everywhere Manifesto

Probably because modern Korean text is Hangul, which is not really derived from the Han characters Chinese and Japanese have in common.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangul

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_characters

kenmazy on April 30, 2012 [–]

Hanja is widely used in modern Korea.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanja

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