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I can appreciate the funny lyrics, but in real life I appreciate being able to write in my own language on a computer. Or even a mix of my language and another
by Ndymium 2y ago
I can appreciate the funny lyrics, but in real life I appreciate being able to write in my own language on a computer. Or even a mix of my language and another non-English language!
- lmm 2y ago> in real life I appreciate being able to write in my own language on a computer. I do too, which is why I hate the "unicode only for everything everywhere" narrative that's taken hold. My language can't be written properly in Unicode, so support for traditional codepages and encodings is really important!
- klibertp 2y agoWhat language is that? Given that there are glyphs for Ancient Egyptian in Unicode now, the claim that there's a language you can't write in Unicode needs some backing :)
- Ndymium 2y agoI presume they mean Han unification[0], which to an uneducated outsider sure sounds like a fuckup. I wonder if it's possible to fix it inside Unicode without throwing the rest of it away. Reserve new blocks for all the needed graphemes and deprecate the unified ones? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification
- lmm 2y agoJapanese. If you try to write it in Unicode you get (in the overwhelming majority of applications) Chinese and some vaporware excuses about font regions.