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Add option to use Taiwanese variants of CJK characters

Minecraft uses the Unifont font, which provides the standard Chinese character glyphs for mainland China, while Japanese kanji are displayed using the Unifont JP font. This means that in Minecraft, it does not fully comply with Taiwan's "Standard Form of National Characters" (國字標準字體/CNS11643) but instead uses the Chinese GB18030 standard.

24w06a Minecraft introduced a option called "Japanese Glyph Variants"(under Language->Font Settings) to favor Japanese Glyph Variants font. I think there should be a option for Taiwanese Glyph Variants as well.

Below is an example image that shows the difference between each variants https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/CJKV_variant_glyphs.png 

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

This is a feature request for https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-157823 and https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-180099 but I'm not the original author.

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• January 27, 2025 15:17
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  • June 05, 2025 17:30
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  There is a problem that there is *no* available 16 by 16 pixel font that is open source and is following CNS11643. Someone will have to make one.

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  • March 17, 2026 09:03
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  Currently Unifont has published the corresponding T-source variant, this could be considered again.