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jmusallyesterday at 7:15 PM1 replyview on HN

The fact is that there were so many character sets in use before Unicode because all these things were needed or at least wanted by a lot of people. Here's a great blog post by Nikita Prokopov about it: https://tonsky.me/blog/unicode/


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WalterBrightyesterday at 9:55 PM

Sometimes you gotta say no. Trying to please every hare brained idea leads to madness.

Normalized code point sequences are another WTF feature.

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