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Bullshit. Just like punycode TLDs. And I say this as a guy from a cyrillic country. We invented a footgun and then promptly shot themselves with it. Instead of
by gear54rus 9y ago
Bullshit. Just like punycode TLDs. And I say this as a guy from a cyrillic country. We invented a footgun and then promptly shot themselves with it.
Instead of making everyone use safe ascii charset for IDs (domains, names like the one in the article, etc.), we go for stupid fuckton of language charsets that cause such problems. All in the name of accessiblity or whatever. And all this does it let people continue living in their language-specific bubble instead of just learning the main international language: english and living happily ever after.
And now people suggest some crutches like restricting the data to some subset of unicode. Never learn.
- kome 9y agoI am happy about unicode, the benefits are well worth the few problems. Scammer will always be scammer. We have to outsmart them, that's all.
- Jaxan 9y agoI don't think it's fair to force English upon people. It's not even the most spoken language on the planet. (There is more people speaking Chinese. And also more people speaking Spanish than English.)
- gear54rus 9y agoOf course it's fair. Tech dominates the world, it's not about numbers, it's about being able to understand everyone using modern communication methods. Regarding china, they chose isolationist politics (just like russia lol), it's everyone else's duty to pull the blanket over to the 'everyone' side from 'china' side.