It would be awesome to redesign Unicode to not suck.
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I think this is a simple case of overcomplicating something that should not have been complicated. You can see the design decision mistakes in Unicode - they mostly stem from them not realizing what should and shouldn't be explicitly encoded.
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As a result, you take what should have been a relatively simple specification and you turn it into something that requires massive amounts of special-case "AI-like" coding to get right (tons of pattern matching, etc.)
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