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octoberfranklin • today at 12:06 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

UCS-2 (i.e. Javascript, 16-bit character space) has enough codepoints for every language still spoken except Chinese (even after undoing Han Unification, which was dumb).

Unicode is China forcing variable-length character encodings on the rest of the world.


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monster_truck • today at 1:10 AM

this might be the dumbest thing I've read on HN in 2026

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