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I consider unicode dead. We wanted a simple way to expand characters from 7 bit to 16 bit and instead got a horrendous mess, complete with childish toy icons in
by jbb555 10y ago
I consider unicode dead.
We wanted a simple way to expand characters from 7 bit to 16 bit and instead got a horrendous mess, complete with childish toy icons in.
The whole thing needs scrapping and doing properly
- onion2k 10y agoWhen you state "The whole thing needs scrapping and doing properly" you should probably remember that Unicode didn't just magically appear one night. A lot of very distinguished and hard-working people have put in a great deal of effort to build a standard that works, and is supported extensively. You may believe you could do a better job, but I suspect you're only looking at the technical implementation rather than the politics of what it takes to define a standard everyone supports. The things you think makes unicode a mess are almost certainly the results of many compromises that, if they hadn't been made, would mean there wouldn't be a standard. That would be far worse.