No discussion? I see this got a couple off-topic votes. Of course the ways that careless technology hurts people should be on-topic on a technology site!
Thanks! Not only does it have that nuanced discussion about Bengali, native speakers of German and Spanish chimed in to disagree with each other on their own alphabets. It was actually pretty fascinating (and mostly respectful).
There’s not a lot of people that can discuss Unicode in deep. It’s a huge standard implemented by many parties around the globe. The Han Unification alone is a topic that you can write books about (or long articles, that’s why I dug out the other one here: https://lobste.rs/s/xqufna/unicode_in_japan_-_guide_to_a_technical_and_psychological_struggle ). You have to know many languages and writing systems.
I spent a lot of time lurking on the XeTeX MLs where those discussions happen and the level of knowledge required was astonishing. There’s so many things Unicode chose not implement.
I like about lobste.rs that usually people hold back commenting unless they have thorough opinions based on knowledge.
I find the simple assumption that the Unicode is careless tendentious: it is a huge, global effort that at the same time has to care about adoption. It is also the first of its kind. It will hopefully not be the last. How can one expect them to get everything right at the first time?
MVC often gets downvotes just because of who they are, which I find a sad thing. It is a very thorough article and the example used is certainly a huge flaw.
No discussion? I see this got a couple off-topic votes. Of course the ways that careless technology hurts people should be on-topic on a technology site!
There was a nuanced back-and-forth between the post’s author and someone familiar with Bengali and Unicode on YCombinator News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9220147
Thanks! Not only does it have that nuanced discussion about Bengali, native speakers of German and Spanish chimed in to disagree with each other on their own alphabets. It was actually pretty fascinating (and mostly respectful).
There’s not a lot of people that can discuss Unicode in deep. It’s a huge standard implemented by many parties around the globe. The Han Unification alone is a topic that you can write books about (or long articles, that’s why I dug out the other one here: https://lobste.rs/s/xqufna/unicode_in_japan_-_guide_to_a_technical_and_psychological_struggle ). You have to know many languages and writing systems.
I spent a lot of time lurking on the XeTeX MLs where those discussions happen and the level of knowledge required was astonishing. There’s so many things Unicode chose not implement.
I like about lobste.rs that usually people hold back commenting unless they have thorough opinions based on knowledge.
I find the simple assumption that the Unicode is careless tendentious: it is a huge, global effort that at the same time has to care about adoption. It is also the first of its kind. It will hopefully not be the last. How can one expect them to get everything right at the first time?
MVC often gets downvotes just because of who they are, which I find a sad thing. It is a very thorough article and the example used is certainly a huge flaw.