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This is a bullshit argument that never gets applied to any other live language. The characters are different, people who actually use them in daily life recogni
by lmm 2y ago
This is a bullshit argument that never gets applied to any other live language. The characters are different, people who actually use them in daily life recognise them as conveying different things. If a thumbs up with a different skin tone is a different character then a different pattern of lines is definitely a different character.
- Dylan16807 2y ago> If a thumbs up with a different skin tone is a different character Is it? The skin tone modifier is serving the same purpose as a variant selector for the CJK codepoint would be.
- lmm 2y agoThe underlying implementation mechanism is not the issue. If unicode had actual support for Japanese characters so that when one e.g. converted text from Shift-JIS (in the default, supported way) one could be confident that one's characters would not change into different characters, I wouldn't be complaining, whether the implementation mechanism involved variant selectors or otherwise.
- Dylan16807 2y agoOkay, that's fair. The support for the selectors is very half-assed and there's no other good mechanism.