> both of your points seem to illustrate the complexities of the languages, not "...that Unicode is a flawed idea" The flaw in Unicode is that it punts on the

> both of your points seem to illustrate the complexities of the languages, not "...that Unicode is a flawed idea" The flaw in Unicode is that it punts on the intrinsic complexity---pretending that codepoints have language-independent, plain-text, semantic meaning. A couple of threads that have molded my views over time: I can't write my name in Unicode https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9219162 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9219162 (Specifically these two comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9220530 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9220530 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9220970 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9220970) Why isn't the external link symbol in Unicode? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23016832 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23016832