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For reference, my actual name and original languages cannot be spelled without some Unicode. And I am still the OP that said I'd prefer to turn Unicode off, or
by jgeada 3y ago
For reference, my actual name and original languages cannot be spelled without some Unicode. And I am still the OP that said I'd prefer to turn Unicode off, or at very least have very tight leash on what it is allowed to do
The reasoning is that my primary computer use is in a single language. I very very rarely need to have my computer understand and present to me multiple different languages, and never languages that follow different rules. Anytime such a thing occurs:
a) it is not a language I understand, so not rendering it is fine & safe
b) someone is playing games with Unicode to try to trick me. Definitely not rendering is fine and rendering is actually dangerous
c) the most rare case: the other language is relevant. The only times this has happened (talking to my family and whatnot), it is local to a specific app and I only want that app to deal with the other languages.
The problem is that in the interest of satisfying every language group, my computers assume I care about all languages. I don't, I only speak/read 4 languages and everything else is no use being presented to me. If I'm an outlier, I'm an outlier for being fluent in more than a single language.
For most all users, having the system limited to presenting a single language would significantly reduce the attack surface.
- Tainnor 3y agoSo how should that work? Every person who uses a computer has to manually configure what kinds of characters they want rendered?