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It looks like that because Unicode is trying to solve a problem that everyone thinks is easy until they uncover the true extent of encoding human languages.
by ebiester 3y ago
It looks like that because Unicode is trying to solve a problem that everyone thinks is easy until they uncover the true extent of encoding human languages.
- eviks 3y agoHow does this explain surrogate pairs?
- jfultz 3y agoSurrogate pairs were new to Unicode 2.0. Unicode 1.0 didn't anticipate the need for more than 65,536 code points (who would ever need more?); the main perceived threat to that limit having been resolved by Han unification.
- eviks 3y agoOk, but that doesn't answer the question; it's more of an indication that those design(at)s didn't uncover "the true extent" until years later