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Ken Lunde
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Ken Lunde's personal blog at ken-lunde.medium.com covers design, history and writing. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-11-07, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Ken Lunde's Medium posts on CJK text, Han Unification, Japanese encoding and fonts, and his Adobe career. Comments cite them as sources, without explicit praise.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
I am surprised how many comments here never heard of Han Unification. The problem is not new, and some of us have been ranting about it for more than a decade. From the UTF-8-Everywhere Manifesto in 2012 on HN [1], And a search [2] on HN dates back to 2010. I am also surprised at the support this problem now has. At least on this thread. Generally speaking Han Unification problem dont get much if any support on HN.…
Comment linking /my-28-years-of-adobelife-e97e703fd924
on “Your code displays Japanese wrong”Submitted Genuine Han Unification–Redux as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAdobe gets lots of stick for its subscription and malware like Creative Cloud. But they do spend huge amount of resources on CJK fonts, layout and encoding. And part of the reason why I like PDF. ( Behind a Paywall ) https://ken-lunde.medium.com/my-28-years-of-adobelife-e97e70...
Comment linking /my-28-years-of-adobelife-e97e703fd924
on “Your code displays Japanese wrong”Seems so, I wonder when the whole stack starts supporting it (IMEs, fonts, text shaping engines) Adobe / Google seems to have a font https://ken-lunde.medium.com/improving-font-information-proc... EDIT: Seems IVS is really old, but its still a problem so not holding my breath
Comment linking /improving-font-information-processing-infrastructure-pan-cjk-typeface-development-465c2bef1235
on “You can't just assume UTF-8”