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> Is there any standard system where each byte/word maps to one character/grapheme? > I'm sure such a system wouldn't support some languages > I'm guessing yo
by dahfizz 5y ago
> Is there any standard system where each byte/word maps to one character/grapheme?
> I'm sure such a system wouldn't support some languages
> I'm guessing you could extract a subset of UTF-8
I can't tell if you're joking or not. You're perfectly describing ASCII.
- geokon 5y agoOkay but ascii only covers English. Doesn't even cover all European languages. There is probably something between ascii and utf-8 where you could cover prolly like 90% of people's needs with English Chinese Japanese Korean Greek Russian. Weird languages that need ligatures and combining symbols are the exception (and in some cases like Korean there is a very finite amount of combinations)