Oh it gets attention on Hacker News to this day. Any time there's a thread about something Unicode one or another of our Japanese colleagues will show up to mak

Oh it gets attention on Hacker News to this day. Any time there's a thread about something Unicode one or another of our Japanese colleagues will show up to make a fuss about how Unicode is quite insufficient for Japanese, for this reason or that. In 2024 I'm out of sympathy for this. There's an entire tertiary plane for extended Hanzi/Kanji/ideographs, if there are still missing glyphs please take it up with the Unicode Consortium, because there's plenty of room and it is reasonable to support one (1) character encoding now. But it is in fact Microsoft's fault that the farcical attempt to squeeze "CJK" into a two-byte encoding was even attempted. They were firmly committed to the idea that UCS-2 could ever be viable and we're stuck with various consequences of this fatuous premise to this day.