alt Hacker NewsThe existence of characters that need this much work to explain suggests to be that unicode is bloated. Not the only thing that suggests that, either.
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maxeda • today at 10:42 AM
The stated goal of Unicode is to support every past and present writing system in world world. Say what you will about that but I think just because a symbol's meaning might be obscure to us doesn't mean it isn't useful to someone else.
That’s unavoidable given the goal: Unicode provides a unique number for every character, no matter what the platform, no matter what the program, no matter what the language.
https://www.unicode.org/standard/WhatIsUnicode.html