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No, it didn't. There were all kinds of encodings out there, and dealing with code pages was way worse than any inconveniences that Unicode has brought. Unicode
by kryptiskt 2y ago
No, it didn't. There were all kinds of encodings out there, and dealing with code pages was way worse than any inconveniences that Unicode has brought. Unicode was created for a reason, not just to torture US programmers with the diversity of scripts in the world.
Maybe it was nice if you worked for a US company without any operations abroad, which includes absolutely none of those which mattered.
- account42 2y agoYou still need to deal with "codepages" to differentiate between Japanese Unicode and Chinese Unicode even if it's called a language and not codepage now.
- CorrectHorseBat 2y agoHan unification sucks indeed but if you get the wrong font it's still readable
- numpad0 2y agoSometimes, not always. Depends on how similar specific characters happen to be.