@cmuratori I boggled at that too, but to be fair, Unicode only expanded past 64K chars in 1996, and opentype is mostly 80's truetype).
OpenType, the current font standard, was developed in 1996 _and has a hard limit of 64k glyphs_. Way to future-proof, guys.
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@cmuratori Like, Windows' use of UTF-16 is because it was originally UCS-2 because originally they expected 64K to be enough for everything.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@cmuratori And the reason 64K isn't enough is fairly complex and political. -
@nothings Dude, there can be new languages. It was simply foolish to release a standard in the 90s that didn't support at least 32 bits. - Show replies
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