Request to remove Japanese form of 门 (U+95E8)

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See also https://code.google.com/p/noto/issues/detail?id=77#c5
See also https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=408199
See also b/17303065

The problem with 门 (U+95E8) is that this character is exclusively used in 
Simplfied Chinese. The Japanese form glpyh is very different from the Chinese 
form, it almost never used anywhere, and it is unfamiliar to Chinese native 
readers.

However the Noto Sans CJK treats Japanese as its primary display locale unless 
it is overridden by system locale or HTML lang attributes. I think it would 
make more sense to remove the Japanese form.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by hshi@chromium.org on 4 Sep 2014 at 8:48

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While it is easy to blame the user for not specifying locale, it is not always 
possible (or easy) to do so. For example the primary UI locale is US English 
and there does not exist a mechanism to specify secondary and tertiary language 
preferences. In this case IMHO the right thing to do is to pick the Chinese 
form because it is the commonly used.

Original comment by hshi@chromium.org on 4 Sep 2014 at 9:00

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The Version 1.001 update addresses this and similar issues. Please be patient.

The current work-around is to instead install the region-specific Simplified 
Chinese subset OTFs, which use forms appropriate for China by default.

Original comment by ken.lu...@gmail.com on 4 Sep 2014 at 10:29

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Original comment by stua...@google.com on 6 Sep 2014 at 12:36

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Based on what I'm gonna do at 
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=408199 as well as the fact 
that those characters ARE used for Japanese, I'll close this bug as WONTFIX. 
With the change I'm planning to do, Chinese users will see Chinese forms for 
those characters even in English UI> 

Original comment by jungs...@google.com on 8 Sep 2014 at 11:13

• Changed state: WontFix