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Unicode is quite elegant in its encoding too. If you're going to criticize it for its content, maybe start with talking about how ASCII also has invisible chara
by saagarjha 2y ago
Unicode is quite elegant in its encoding too. If you're going to criticize it for its content, maybe start with talking about how ASCII also has invisible characters and those that people rarely use.
- WalterBright 2y agoUnicode encoding is elegant, until it added combining characters. As for ASCII, I am well aware of its invisible characters. I am a veteran of many many years in the trenches fighting tab wars. (Is it 4 spaces?, or 8? 3?) I eventually realized that the only solution is to never use tab characters. People use markup languages for formatting - Markdown, style sheets, Latex, etc. Unicode's markup is just a sad, crappy reinvention of actual markup languages.