@hipsterelectron
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My love hate relationship with unicode is growing deeper every day. They are the toxic ex I always go back to.
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My love hate relationship with unicode is growing deeper every day. They are the toxic ex I always go back to.
@futurebird i was going to learn a lot more about unicode in grad school working on text search and parsing but they said no! @jamiejennings has some incredible writing on unicode here although i believe it's not quite related to your problem space https://jamiejennings.com/posts/2021-09-07-dont-look-back-1/
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@futurebird i was going to learn a lot more about unicode in grad school working on text search and parsing but they said no! @jamiejennings has some incredible writing on unicode here although i believe it's not quite related to your problem space https://jamiejennings.com/posts/2021-09-07-dont-look-back-1/
@hipsterelectron @jamiejennings
I'm disturbed that when I copy these:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuneiform_Numbers_and_Punctuationthey seem to be ... somehow more than one character at some level... and they screw up the ligatures of everything. It's creepy.
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My love hate relationship with unicode is growing deeper every day. They are the toxic ex I always go back to.
@futurebird @hipsterelectron beats the hell out of the alternatives, anyway
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@futurebird @hipsterelectron beats the hell out of the alternatives, anyway
@SnoopJ @futurebird @hipsterelectron Sometimes I wonder what life would be like if we had chosen some other unit than the character. Word-level encodings?
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@SnoopJ @futurebird @hipsterelectron Sometimes I wonder what life would be like if we had chosen some other unit than the character. Word-level encodings?
@dx @SnoopJ @futurebird @hipsterelectron To some extent several languages like Chinese and Japanese (kanji) actually does this. It's... not fun. Which is why simplified systems were created (eg katakana and hiragana.)
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My love hate relationship with unicode is growing deeper every day. They are the toxic ex I always go back to.
@futurebird @hipsterelectron what is the hate part?
I'm quite honestly extremely impressed by the Unicode project, it made a problem that plagued my teenage internet years pretty much go away, can't even remember the last time I saw a butchered umlaut.
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@futurebird @hipsterelectron what is the hate part?
I'm quite honestly extremely impressed by the Unicode project, it made a problem that plagued my teenage internet years pretty much go away, can't even remember the last time I saw a butchered umlaut.
@sophieschmieg @hipsterelectron
The hate is mostly from how it can be very arcane and confusing to implement in some cases. Because they have expanded the number of addresses several times it's intimidating to know how to address anything. Never as simple as I think it should be.
