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CJK Font Variation 1

CJK localization is tricky

Date Published

From
English (United States)
English (United States)
Escape Simulator settings screen in English
To
Japanese
日本語
Escape Studio settings screenshot in Japanese
Escape Studio settings screenshot in Simplified Chinese
Escape Studio settings screenshot in Traditional Chinese

Escape Simulator uses Noto Sans CJK / Source Han Sans JP variant (= default variant) for all CJK languages, but each language has their own preferred character variations. While the readers can still read these text in incorrect variations, the text would look unnatural if incorrect variant is used.

Below is a summary of variations of highlighted characters in each region, produced by Source Han Mapping tool.

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