It would be awesome to redesign Unicode to not suck.
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The conventional wisdom here is that somehow it is the application developer's fault, but actually, it is just that Unicode is poorly designed and requires a tremendous investment in developer time to even attempt to get right.
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Hmm. Speaking as a dumb application developer, my take is a mix of "application dev's fault", "bad &/or obsolete programming language design choices (e.g. strings as sequences of UTF-16 code units) lay traps for the naive", and "inherently complicated problem domain".
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That's not Unicode fault. I know a lot about charsets and encodings and it's a complex matter. Unicode did their best at the time, integrated better technologies as they emerged and also deprecated old stuff, like the UCS-2 encoding.
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