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Comment by mrcactu5 | Hacker News Reader

this isn't esoteric at all. We are discriminating against Korea when we do not accommodate their alphabet.

China and Japan obviously have to accommodate themselves as there is no possibility of having one key for each Kanji (or Chinese character). There was a nice documentary showing arcane Chinese characters or different descendants of the same Chinese characters.

Does this encode the font or merely the character (as an entity)?

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As mentioned in sibling threads, it is esoteric in terms of programming languages. It's in the same page as Brainfuck and Befunge and the name "esoteric programming language" is well-established [1].

[1] https://esolangs.org/wiki/Main_Page

Huh? It's very easy to input Han Characters on modern systems. Most people type it a phonetic alphabet (eg, romanizations like Hanyu Pinyin, or indigenous phonetic alphabets like Zhuyin) and a little program pops up, giving you a list of matching characters, and you select them. Googles ones are very good (they even know regional varions in mandarin pronunciation).

It's entirely conceivable for a programming language to be made with Han Characters - because it's a solved problem to input Han Characters on keyboards.

Or Have I missed the point of what you wrote entirely?

> It's entirely conceivable for a programming language to be made with Han Characters

Not only is it conceivable, it has already been done:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_programming_la...

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