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AFAIK it was a historical attempt to save on encoding space back when Unicode had a 16bit fixed width and could only support up to 65K characters. Now that Uni
by com2kid 12y ago
AFAIK it was a historical attempt to save on encoding space back when Unicode had a 16bit fixed width and could only support up to 65K characters.
Now that Unicode has expanded out, I am confused why anyone still defends this practice.
- Tomte 12y agoThat's just one of the reasons people had (and you can't really expect everyone involved to have totally congruent reasons). But how about "g"? Do you really believe the two common variants (one storey/two stories) should have separate code points? What about German vs. French vs. Danish vs. etc.? All different "g"? Why? And if not, what is the core difference?
- 1ris 12y agoThe Cyrillic R (looks like P) and and Greek Roh (also looks like P) and the Latin P are not unified either. Although I think unifying some Greek and Cyrillic letters would have made sense.