OpenType, the current font standard, was developed in 1996 _and has a hard limit of 64k glyphs_. Way to future-proof, guys.
@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.
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@cmuratori This is where it's complicated and political; it is ambiguous where the boundary between fonts and character encodings is.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@cmuratori I think they figured if they could make Han unification work, they could do similar with others. Much resistance to bigger chars. -
@nothings But that's just _another_ mistake, right... it's like compounding failure with more failure. - Show replies
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