I think I agree. Trying to encode all of human written language in one standard is just too huge a scope, and then you shove all that complexity into every laye

I think I agree. Trying to encode all of human written language in one standard is just too huge a scope, and then you shove all that complexity into every layer of computing except just being in the kind of documents that need that level of complexity. It's definitely an extreme view[0], and I'm open to being argued out of it, but I really think we should use a different and much simpler encoding for the vast majority of things even if it doesn't perfectly reproduce the written text of the language. Writing systems encoded the language in a way fit for the medium of paper, and maybe we need to consider computers a different medium and adapt our language to them differently too. [0] and probably anglo-centric.