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The Unicode Consortium’s goal is to have codepoints for everything. They want a situation where a string in one encoding (Shift-JIS or whatever) can be converte
by colejohnson66 5y ago
The Unicode Consortium’s goal is to have codepoints for everything. They want a situation where a string in one encoding (Shift-JIS or whatever) can be converted into Unicode codepoints and back with no (visible[a]) loss. This leads to them never removing codepoints, and even adding some that don’t make sense at first glance, such as U+1F574 MAN IN BUSINESS SUIT LEVITATING.[0] That one was added because of Microsoft’s Wingdings font, and the internet has a field day with complaints about that being added and not a new emoji for $whatever.
[a]: grapheme clusters(?)
[0]: https://codepoints.net/U+1F574 https://codepoints.net/U+1F574
- Wowfunhappy 5y agoSure, and that's a great goal, and they can get 99.9% of the way there—but that last 0.1% may require bad compromises that aren't worth it. You brought up the Kim Il-Sung flag was rejected, that seems like a good decision, even if it means they can't entirely fulfill their goal!
- zinekeller 5y agoHe didn't brought that one (read the username before you reply!) The reason that one wasn't included (by the way) is that there is no significant computer usage that will benefit it, at least that's the statement release.
- Wowfunhappy 5y agoOops, yes, sorry for the mixup! I hate it when people do that to me and apparently I'm just as bad!