From Tim Bray’s “On the Goodness of Unicode” (6 April 2003):
Another problem is that in these parts of the world [China, Japan, Korea], it is not unheard-of to invent new characters. The Japanese word for such charaacters is gaiji; historically they were invented for personal or company names.
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Posted on July 6th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
Categories: Commonplace Book, Language & Literature, Technology
Tags: japan, language, social_change, web_development