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> It might have been better if the 'code pages' idea was refined instead of eliminated Obviously yes, it would have been better. But Unicode was designed by t
by otabdeveloper4 5y ago
> It might have been better if the 'code pages' idea was refined instead of eliminated
Obviously yes, it would have been better.
But Unicode was designed by the same people who designed ASCII - monolingual Americans who never had to deal on a daily basis with anything that doesn't fit into the 26 letters of the English alphabet. So here we are.
- gumby 5y ago> But Unicode was designed by the same people who designed ASCII - monolingual Americans who never had to deal on a daily basis with anything that doesn't fit into the 26 letters of the English alphabet. This is not even remotely true.
- otabdeveloper4 5y agoYes it is. The people who made Unicode went out of their way to make life hard and offensive for CJK, Cyrillic, etc., users.
- gumby 5y agoSince you could watch this all unfold in real time (and can go back and read mailing list archives back ab initio) you can easily see the participants and their positions and arguments. The “people who made Unicode” came from and continue to come from all over the world. Also, do you remember what (polyglot computing) life was like before Unicode?