Comment on UTF-8 history (2003)parentComments−ummonk11moThe same applies to why China had all the building blocks (pun intended) of the printing press but it was perfected by Gutenberg in Europe, where the number of glyphs was much more manageable.−zahlman11moIndeed. Even if you try to split hanzi into parts it's far more unwieldy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangxi_radicals).
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The same applies to why China had all the building blocks (pun intended) of the printing press but it was perfected by Gutenberg in Europe, where the number of glyphs was much more manageable.
Indeed. Even if you try to split hanzi into parts it's far more unwieldy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangxi_radicals).