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This seems great in concept, and totally infeasible. But if anyone can do it, unicode seems like a great candidate. Does anyone have reason for more optimism?
by rocqua 8mo ago
This seems great in concept, and totally infeasible.
But if anyone can do it, unicode seems like a great candidate.
Does anyone have reason for more optimism?
- hobofan 8mo agoCare to explain why you think it's infeasible? Then one could provide targeted counter-optimism ;) I don't see what's infeasible about it. It doesn't seem too different from .po files (gettext catalogs) meshed with hooks for post-processing as would see in e.g. a handlebars, both of which have individually found great adoption.
- bmn__ 8mo ago> why you think it's infeasible? GP based his opinion on the assumption that this spec new and no implementations for it exist.
- zbraniecki 8mo agoICU4C and ICU4J have implementations. We also have a JS polyfill and will be working on ICU4X impl this quarter.
- junon 8mo agoUnicode consortium already manages a ton of language specs. If there's any group of folks I'd trust to understand languages (natural or otherwise), it's them.
- Cthulhu_ 8mo agoThis is the one. Think of all the "misconceptions developer have about X" lists, I trust Unicode to have encountered (if not written) all of them. The people behind unicode are thorough. I mean they have hieroglyphs, some of which have plurals: https://www.unicode.org/charts/nameslist/n_13000.html https://www.unicode.org/charts/nameslist/n_13000.html
- tuyiown 8mo agoI've been using this format for almost 10 years, and I only see increasing adoption. Why would I be pessimistic?