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> In case anyone is wondering why different glyphs have the same unicode code point, and how an app is supposed to decide which one to render... Well I don't kn
by AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y ago
> In case anyone is wondering why different glyphs have the same unicode code point, and how an app is supposed to decide which one to render... Well I don't know the reason for the first question actually
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification
My understanding is that this is basically "white guy says all Asian writing looks the same" in standards form and is largely regarded as a terrible idea.
- kevin_thibedeau 4y agoUnicode had a builtin language tagging system to resolve glyph variants. Han unification was implemented with this in mind. Then the tagging got deprecated in a later version.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y agoThe more I learn about unicode, the more it looks like Bad Ideas: The Standard to me. The only good part of it is the UTF-8 encoding and that was just Thompson and Pike sitting down and thinking about the problem for an hour.
- kevin_thibedeau 4y agoUTF-8 is just a simplified improvement on another variable encoding. They didn't conjure it from nothing.