> Why are we being "fair" to a machine? We aren't, that turn of phrase is only being used to set up a joke about developers and about Unicode. It's actually a

> Why are we being "fair" to a machine? We aren't, that turn of phrase is only being used to set up a joke about developers and about Unicode. It's actually a pretty popular form these days: a does something patently unreasonable, so you say "To be fair to a, b is also patently unreasonable thing under specific detail of the circumstances that is clearly not the only/primary reason a was unreasonable."