I’m reading book about history of character encoding and it’s full of human sentiment like “Why our use of Kanji characters (read: this thousands years old cultural symbol we are proud of) have to be limited(read: some were not given codepoint) by computer industry ‘standards’“
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I didn’t realize how Pax Americana Unicode history is.
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@kosamari Which book? I have painful memories of fighting in some ISO-2022-JP vs UTF8 vs UTF16 skirmishes many years ago… - 3 more replies
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