Wait hold on I just realized.

[jonathankoren@sfba.social]

@Heliograph @mcc @rk
Narrator: They brought home zero ges of companions

[heliograph@mastodon.au]

@jonathankoren ゲ ✓ @mcc @rk

[rachelplusplus@tech.lgbt]

@mcc I have to wonder if this is downstream of Unicode's choices around CJK unification. Because I seem to remember reading that it ended up causing some situations where, in order to correctly render a block of text, you need out-of-band knowledge of which language it's in.

[ehashman@toot.cat]

@mcc I'm so glad you found a fix!

[noone2333@mastodon.social]

@mcc “八人入” isn’t wrong, but it feels incomplete — like “eight people enter...” and then you wait for the rest.

“八人入众” is more satisfying. It means “eight people enter a crowd” — a complete image, and a great start for a story.

To me, it feels like the opening of a wuxia (武侠 martial arts) tale.
In wuxia, heroes often disappear into crowds before they act. So “eight people enter a crowd” already makes me curious: who are they? what happens next?

Thanks for sharing ！