This is an old-man rant, but the first time I saw Unicode I felt like I was looking at a train wreck coming from a long way off. It has too many edge cases, fo

This is an old-man rant, but the first time I saw Unicode I felt like I was looking at a train wreck coming from a long way off. It has too many edge cases, footguns and unintuitive artifacts like this. I wish we constrained its use to only where required. Text was so much easier to reason about and safer to manipulate in the ASCII days.