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Upvote for the grump thing, but really, Unicode is about scripts, and scripts are evolving. If we want to write sparklines, we get to with pen and paper, but t
by cryptonector 2y ago
Upvote for the grump thing, but really, Unicode is about scripts, and scripts are evolving. If we want to write sparklines, we get to with pen and paper, but then... we can't transliterate them into Unicode? That makes no sense. No, characters for sparklines make a lot of sense, more than for emojis, but when you consider that CJK characters are basically monochrome stylized emojis, modern emojis make sense too.
My biggest gripe here is that we will need to kill UTF-16 so we can have a larger set of codepoints, and that's only a gripe because killing UTF-16 is going to be really difficult, not because I want to keep UTF-16 (oh no, UTF-16 really needs to die).