| ▲ | wang_li 3 hours ago |
| The Unicode committee needs to be dissolved or else Unicode is going to evolve into a full page markup scheme to rival pdf. |
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| ▲ | JuniperMesos 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Human written language is genuinely complicated; Unicode (or something that solves the same problems Unicode is trying to solve) actually does need to be a complicated specification. |
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| ▲ | foxglacier an hour ago | parent [-] | | Yes, but real writing is also unbounded in complexity. Unicode can't do everything or it would just be a general purpose vector graphics language. Traditionally, writing systems had to adapt to the limitations of the technology (eg. runes with only straight lines for carving) or not using cursive for printing, but now computers can do so much, we just let everything go and try to recapture every arbitrary detail of the past we can squeeze in and people pay for that with human labor maintaining such a mountain of low-value capabilities. |
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| ▲ | Georgelemental 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| People are going to use Arabic and Hebrew whether you want them to or not |