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Linkification of URLs [pdf]

• nabla9 2y ago
  Unicode creep - more features nobody uses. Unicode is the wrong abstraction layer for doing this. URLs and hashtags belong to structured text. Adding stuff for parsing them is not the job of Unicode. Unicode has lots of legacy stuff, like U+2029 PARAGRAPH SEPARATOR. They exist and are justified for backward compatibility. Using them for writing today is not a good idea. Inventing new stuff to be ignored just because a standard body has been set up and needs to do something is wasted time.
  • pestatije 2y ago
    they see so many empty code points and cannot help thinking how to fill them up
  • deleted 2y ago
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