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HK glyph for U+74CA 瓊 is incorrect
Currently, the HK version of U+74CA 瓊 is mapped to uni74CA-JP
. But this glyph doesn't fit HK's convention because of the difference in the bottom right component (攵 in HK/TW, 夂 in JP/CN/KR).
This could be fixed simply by changing the mapping of the HK version of U+74CA to uni74CA-TW
. However, this actually points to a larger problem.
There is one more glyph uni74CAuE0101-JP
for U+74CA, which looks very similar to uni74CA-TW.
There is a trivial difference - in uni74CAuE0101-JP, the last stroke ㇏ touches the first stroke 丿 of the 攵 component, while the two strokes don't touch in uni74CA-TW. The untouched design can also be found in the TW version of other 敻-composed glyphs, which is probably why a different glyph is needed for U+74CA.
But I’d argue this is a unifiable difference and such distinction is unneccessary because:
- In U+657B 敻, all regions including TW and HK share the same glyph (
uni657B-CN
), with the last stroke of 攵 touching the first stroke.
- In fact, the "touched" version of the 攵 component is used in all other codepoints, no matter which region the glyph is mainly designed for.
Thus, the design of the 攵 component in all TW glyphs with the 敻 component is actually inconsistent with the other part of the font.
To conclude, I believe a better fix would be to (1) map TW and HK version of U+74CA 瓊 to uni74CAuE0101-JP
(which design is better than uni74CA-TW), (2) modify uni77CE-TW
(矎), uni85D1-TW
(藑), uni89FC-TW
(觼), uni8B82-TW
(讂) so that the design of 攵 in this 4 glyphs align with the font design, and (3) remove the current uni74CA-TW
to save one CID for other use.