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I'd love to use unicode on a current project - but just the unicode library is bigger than the memory of the small computer being used :( Seriously, unicode is
by drpixie 5y ago
I'd love to use unicode on a current project - but just the unicode library is bigger than the memory of the small computer being used :(
Seriously, unicode is appallingly messy and heavy-weight. With all that code-point space to burn, a rational design would be very different to what we've got.
- phkamp 5y agoAll you need to know about unicode, is that they thought they could "unify" all the asian glyphs into one alphabet. That said, given the origins of writing, I dont think there are any much cleaner solutions. Their biggest mistake is probably not insisting on a mandatory vector representation which could be used to generate a "font-of-last-resort" My personal pet-peeve is that unicode have not yet assigned 128 code points and two modifiers to cove all possible combinations of 7-segment LEDs :-)
- b2gills 5y agoThey'd probably just define each of the segments separately and require you to use a zero width joiner.