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Sounds great in theory...but you've just vastly extended the number of "characters". While text parsing is a nightmare, you also get the flexibility of combinin
by timw4mail 8y ago
Sounds great in theory...but you've just vastly extended the number of "characters". While text parsing is a nightmare, you also get the flexibility of combining different characters together, such as emojis and skin tone modifiers, which outputs a different display character.
On the other hand, I'm not sure its possible to have a font that represents every valid combination of unicode.
- WalterBright 8y agoUnicode can simply not recognize combining characters where a special code point exists, and vice versa, on a case by case basis. For example, the ä can remain its special code point, and a¨ can display as a¨. Then software that processes Unicode will become straightforward.
- int_19h 8y agoThat ship has sailed for backwards compatibility reasons.