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Thus the inherent contradiction: Unicode is for text, it must include all existing character sets which it aims to unify, and previous character sets weren’t on
by ken 6y ago
Thus the inherent contradiction: Unicode is for text, it must include all existing character sets which it aims to unify, and previous character sets weren’t only used for text.
The obvious hack is to make a custom character set called “Rejected by Unicode”.
- goto11 6y agoIt would probably be easier just to design a png or svg icon for the UI widgets you need. Then you don't have to lobby a consortium and wait for them to accept your icon.
- rini17 6y agoTo offload the design to the font foundry is even easier :)
- ori_b 6y agoThe goal was to eliminate "we can't switch to Unicode, it doesn't have ® symbols" objections.
- yissp 6y agoUnicode Russell's paradox