I'm wondering what happens when someone fluent in, say, Chinese, starts to
hand-letter a neat body of text, forming the characters (in a small size!)
with some care, and then needs to use one of those rare 36-(or
more)-stroke wonders. All "bounding boxes" must be the same size, so what
does the writer do?
Pick up a pen with a narrower tip? Use careful brush technique? Does the
problem just not happen?

Fwiw, 24-pin dot matrix printers can't render such characters properly,
I'm pretty sure.

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Now that I'm thinking of it, what happened in Vol. II of the Unicode 1.0
standard book? Fairly sure it was mostly CJK, and the few copies I saw
were badly "over-inked".

Best regards,

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