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I was part of Unicode effort it’s inception at Xerox and then Apple. It has drifted so far from the initial core principles (that happened a very long time ago)
by knuckleheadsmif 2y ago
I was part of Unicode effort it’s inception at Xerox and then Apple. It has drifted so far from the initial core principles (that happened a very long time ago) that I find Unicode as a whole a technical embarrassment. Seeing yet another duplicate range of latin characters that are just a font variation sickens me to my core even forgetting all the other issues with this range. This is exactly the kind of standard that exemplifies the problems in designing by committee. There are no true guiding principles.
- nxobject 2y agoI agree - considering Han unification, what justifies the existence of the segmented digits or the outline uppercase characters? (Or traditional vs simplified Chinese characters, etc etc etc…)