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Favourite unicode fact: properly rendering unicode requires understanding of the current geopolitical situation (Depending on whom you accept as a country and whom you do not, two country-code-letters may or may not render as a flag. This changes sometimes in today's world.). https://esham.io/2014/06/unicode-flags
If you found this essay interesting, you owe it to yourself to check out this super entertaining talk "Plain Text"[0] from NDC 2022 by Dylan Beattie. Rabbit hole warning: This video caused me to lose an entire Sunday watching Dylan's talks on YouTube, which are uniformly awesome. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd5uJ7Nlvvo
I also really enjoy Dylan Beattie's work. For those with some spare time, who might like to see a true "rockstar" programmer, you may like "The Art of Code"[0]. [0] https://youtu.be/6avJHaC3C2U
It's not that it's hard, it's just people don't go out of their way to escape UTF-8 glyphs into ASCII when dealing with exotic glyphs in a text editor. It's more mundane and tedious, but not 'hard'. Try working with raw UTF-8 in JS and find yourself in a world of pain. Mathias Bynens talks about these gotchas here: https://mathiasbynens.be/notes/javascript-unicode
Favourite unicode fact: properly rendering unicode requires understanding of the current geopolitical situation (Depending on whom you accept as a country and whom you do not, two country-code-letters may or may not render as a flag. This changes sometimes in today's world.). https://esham.io/2014/06/unicode-flags
Imho, unicode should stay out of politics. Country flags, vaccine syringes and pregnant men should have nothing to do with how computers handle text and writing systems.
Language is a very sensitive topic - in Central Asian countries, using Latin, Cyrillic or Perso-Arabic script for instance has very strong political connotations, same in the Balkans. The world is just like that
Favourite unicode fact: properly rendering unicode requires understanding of the current geopolitical situation (Depending on whom you accept as a country and whom you do not, two country-code-letters may or may not render as a flag. This changes sometimes in today's world.). https://esham.io/2014/06/unicode-flags
Imho, unicode should stay out of politics. Country flags, vaccine syringes and pregnant men should have nothing to do with how computers handle text and writing systems.
Favourite unicode fact: properly rendering unicode requires understanding of the current geopolitical situation (Depending on whom you accept as a country and whom you do not, two country-code-letters may or may not render as a flag. This changes sometimes in today's world.). https://esham.io/2014/06/unicode-flags
Imho, unicode should stay out of politics. Country flags, vaccine syringes and pregnant men should have nothing to do with how computers handle text and writing systems.
Favourite unicode fact: properly rendering unicode requires understanding of the current geopolitical situation (Depending on whom you accept as a country and whom you do not, two country-code-letters may or may not render as a flag. This changes sometimes in today's world.). https://esham.io/2014/06/unicode-flags
Imho, unicode should stay out of politics. Country flags, vaccine syringes and pregnant men should have nothing to do with how computers handle text and writing systems.
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Imho, unicode should stay out of politics. Country flags, vaccine syringes and pregnant men should have nothing to do with how computers handle text and writing systems.
There is no way to avoid it. It is very obvious that deciding whether "vaccine syringes" are political (and therefore excluded) or not is itself a political decision.
If you found this essay interesting, you owe it to yourself to check out this super entertaining talk "Plain Text"[0] from NDC 2022 by Dylan Beattie. Rabbit hole warning: This video caused me to lose an entire Sunday watching Dylan's talks on YouTube, which are uniformly awesome. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd5uJ7Nlvvo
I also really enjoy Dylan Beattie's work. For those with some spare time, who might like to see a true "rockstar" programmer, you may like "The Art of Code"[0]. [0] https://youtu.be/6avJHaC3C2U