webitorial

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   by webitorial 12y ago

   No, the argument is "Why didn't the Unicode authors make the same technical choice I would have based on my limited knowledge of this topic -- including not knowing that the pile of poo was created for use in the Japanese market;
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   by webitorial 12y ago

   Any Bengali scholar can join the work for $75.
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   by webitorial 12y ago

   Had nothing to do with proving they were not humorless fascists. There was a legitimate need for a universal codepoint among Japanese cellphone operators. Keep in mind, Japanese is a language where frequently entire concepts are represented
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   by webitorial 12y ago

   And a native Bengali speaker has discussed his input into the Unicode discussions and why he disagreed with the author. What do you know about the linguistic input into the work or the participants? Did you check the huge international list
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   by webitorial 12y ago

   Generally true, but the problem here is not an issue of bandwidth or racism. Unicode can represent this character, but does so with two codepoints, a technical decision the author doesn't feel is useful. He blames this on the dominance