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Japanese game developers face ridiculously high font license fees following US acquisition of major domestic provider. Live-service games to take the biggest blow (automaton-media.com)
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[–] 11 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Unicode has over 100,000 kanji, though the vast majority of these are esoteric kanji that are rarely used. You could trim it down to just the Joyo kanji list, consisting of 2,136 characters for everyday use.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Fuck it, write everything in hiragana and katakana.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    Text that's written in kana-only can actually be kinda difficult to read. Japanese is written without spaces between words, so kanji helps to distinguish where words actually begin and end. The language is also full of homophones, words that are pronounced the same but are written with different kanji to disambiguate them.

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