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> the complexity of Unicode is only a mirror of the complexity of human scripts. Oh please, Unicode didn't start out as an encoding covering human scripts - it
by josefx 3y ago
> the complexity of Unicode is only a mirror of the complexity of human scripts.
Oh please, Unicode didn't start out as an encoding covering human scripts - it was too late for that. It started out as an encoding to end all already existing encodings and that was a shit show with all kinds of weird and non printable symbols to begin with. It also didn't get better when Unicode started to add all kinds of shit like combining emojis into the mix.
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- cryptonector 3y ago> Unicode didn't start out as an encoding covering human scripts > It started out as an encoding to end all already existing encodings And those other encodings were encodings for a variety of human scripts. Re: emojis, well, they're not that different from Kanjis, not really -- both are pictographs after all, one just has much more modern functionality (e.g., color).
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