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/
Sometimes you gotta say no. Trying to please every hare brained idea leads to madness.
Normalized code point sequences are another WTF feature.
Sometimes you gotta say no. Trying to please every hare brained idea leads to madness.
Normalized code point sequences are another WTF feature.