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> utf-8 is dangerously compatible with ASCII This. My name is Kayodé Lycaon. Note the é... how many places don’t support it? Some people consider names to be s
by kayodelycaon 5y ago
> utf-8 is dangerously compatible with ASCII
This. My name is Kayodé Lycaon. Note the é... how many places don’t support it? Some people consider names to be sacred and changing the spelling is more than a little offensive. Even UTF-8 can’t represent all characters in use. I believe there are Japanese names that can’t be represented by its character set.
I get it’s technically difficult but so many places treat people who are different as edge cases to be optimized away.
- microtherion 5y agoOne of the most ridiculous places to insist on ASCII recently was... the Unicode consortium: https://twitter.com/Laserhedvig/status/1395338394713079810 https://twitter.com/Laserhedvig/status/1395338394713079810
- amake 5y agoUTF-8 can represent any Unicode code point. If there is a character that it can’t represent, then that’s because that character is not encoded in Unicode; it has nothing to do with UTF-8 itself.
- kayodelycaon 5y agoNot being in Unicode is what I meant.