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> what belongs and doesn't belong in Unicode That's simple. The justification for most characters, including the exemplary one you mentioned, is that they were
by bmn__ 7y ago
> what belongs and doesn't belong in Unicode
That's simple. The justification for most characters, including the exemplary one you mentioned, is that they were already encoded in some other repertoire. The consortium's task is to collect and unify them.
- mark-r 7y agoIn particular there was a desire to make sure that a round trip from some legacy character set to Unicode and back to the legacy character set wouldn't lose information. So many characters that you would assume to be the same are given multiple code points to make that possible.
- bmn__ 7y agoIndeed :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22682841 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22682841