The peculiar properties of CJK characters and the philosophy (apparently the Japanese did not like Unicode's tendencies towards Aristotelian essentialism) under which they were implemented in Unicode probably singlehandedly forced unicode to expand beyond the BMP....
joshdavham•34m ago
He’s done awesome work in the Japanese NLP space over the last decade which has really helped me in my language learning projects.
He maintains a mecab (Japanese tokenizer) wrapper for Python [0], has a book on Japanese NLP written for English speakers [1] and also worked on Spacy at one point [2].
[0] https://github.com/polm/fugashi [1] https://www.japanesenlp.com/ [2] https://spacy.io/