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> Its a give and take. If you allow for anything beyond latin, then you have to accept that there will be a class of software that will be difficult to interact

by gspr 2y ago

> Its a give and take. If you allow for anything beyond latin, then you have to accept that there will be a class of software that will be difficult to interact with. For whom? Presumably people won't choose a username themselves that is difficult _for them_ to input. It's not like allowing (a subset of) Unicode would force people with near-ASCII keyboards to deviate from what's easy for them to input. > Latin-like language system is simply superior for machine purposes. Citation needed. Besides, on the systems we're talking about at least, the machine itself works with integral UIDs, not user names. > I am sorry, but I don't even want to think of supporting the entire unicode in my software. What does that even mean? Why is your software doing operations on people's names, beyond storing and retrieving them? > I am not going to even attempt to reverse that emoji. Is there any legitimate use case for reversing someone's name??

anon-3988 2y ago
> Is there any legitimate use case for reversing someone's name?? Yes, when you want to reverse sort a list? In fact, how do you even sort such a name that goes in both direction? > What does that even mean? Why is your software doing operations on people's names, beyond storing and retrieving them? A lot of software deals with text. I don't think every software should deal with the entirety of Unicode. There shouldn't be an expectation that all text editor should handle all Unicode. Just like I don't expect a Chinese keyboard and software should work for Latin keyboard and software. In my personal code editor, I handle text byte per byte, so text highlighting, reversing, lookup, etc are simple and efficient. Would it be a problem if I try to open a Chinese text? Yes, but I have accepted that it is a class of problem that I don't want to deal with. I have not seen an open source software that have gracefully handled Unicode, outside of Chrome or something really big. Pretty much every one of them is "errr how does this work again?". How many times have people simply split a text using whitespace? So lets just say I don't have confidence in people doing this correctly. I know I don't.

by gspr 2y ago

anon-3988 2y ago

> Is there any legitimate use case for reversing someone's name?? Yes, when you want to reverse sort a list? In fact, how do you even sort such a name that goes in both direction? > What does that even mean? Why is your software doing operations on people's names, beyond storing and retrieving them? A lot of software deals with text. I don't think every software should deal with the entirety of Unicode. There shouldn't be an expectation that all text editor should handle all Unicode. Just like I don't expect a Chinese keyboard and software should work for Latin keyboard and software. In my personal code editor, I handle text byte per byte, so text highlighting, reversing, lookup, etc are simple and efficient. Would it be a problem if I try to open a Chinese text? Yes, but I have accepted that it is a class of problem that I don't want to deal with. I have not seen an open source software that have gracefully handled Unicode, outside of Chrome or something really big. Pretty much every one of them is "errr how does this work again?". How many times have people simply split a text using whitespace? So lets just say I don't have confidence in people doing this correctly. I know I don't.