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It's one thing to say English will be the international language of trade and commerce. It's another thing altogether to say we won't bother making character se
by beat 12y ago
It's one thing to say English will be the international language of trade and commerce. It's another thing altogether to say we won't bother making character sets that represent other languages, because it's too hard.
Since when has "too hard" ever stopped an engineer? That should be catnip for us!
- ticking 12y agoUnicode is notoriously tricky to implement, there have been bugs where users could take over others accounts by choosing a different unicode representation of the same string. I'd much rather have something that works and is simple. Than something that makes it easy for everybody and is broken.