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Unicode 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
by kevin_thibedeau 4y ago
Unicode 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.