alt Hacker NewsAre there examples of characters with no glyphs and glyphs with multiple characters? Does it mean there is a motion of a certain word but nobody knows how to write it or there are multiple ways to write it? When going from traditional to simplified Chinese many words with different meanings were merged which is kinda weird. Like sprout 發 and hair 髮 now being a single word 发. Is that what its trying to say?
I haven’t been deep into Unicode for a long time, so I can’t remember all the intricacies of the word “glyph”.
So I’m not sure if there are glyphs with multiple characters but there _are_ code points with multiple characters. E.g, you can enter the correct code point and still misspell a Chinese or Japanese word. This is because for Chinese Korean and Japanese characters in Unicode it is not enough to choose the correct code point but also markup the code point with the correct language.