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You can only type ~27% of my name with just ASCII (and even then one letter will not be exactly)... and i agree with you. If anything i'd go a bit further and s
by badsectoracula 5y ago
You can only type ~27% of my name with just ASCII (and even then one letter will not be exactly)... and i agree with you. If anything i'd go a bit further and say that, sure, use Unicode in places where you can find arbitrary text like documents, messages, etc but anything that has to do with the 'guts' of the computer should stay away from Unicode (or at least treat it as data, like how filenames are treated on Linux).
I disagree with the getting everyone on the Unicode bandwagon though, IMO Unicode has introduced a ton of problems exactly because it tries to be a ton of stuff at the same time. I don't know how exactly a better solution would be but i have a very hard time accepting that such a convoluted and error prone system is the best solution. IMO if decades later there are still issues with getting it right then there is something fundamentally wrong with the system itself and not with the applications and developers trying to work with it.
- gpderetta 5y agoAn existing working solution, even if not perfect, patched, with lot of baggage and technical debt is infinitely better than a non-yet invented ideal, perfect solution. And even if the perfect solution existed right now, in a few decades it will be as filed with baggage as the current one. Sometime one has to realize that hard problems are hard.
- badsectoracula 5y ago> Sometime one has to realize that hard problems are hard. And trying to have a single thing solve everything doesn't help at all. When a problem is hard you try to break it into subproblems. Unicode simply tries to do a lot of things at once.