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cbd1984 on June 23, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode...

That's nice, except the BMP doesn't encode all of Chinese, and it includes a number of weird control characters for compatibility with ASCII. Like Vertical Tab. Who uses Vertical Tab anymore?

The dream of a 16-bit Unicode washed up on the rocks of CJK scripts. It's dead and it isn't going to be revived. You can argue for a simpler standard, with fewer assigned codepoints, but the original BMP isn't it and was never going to be it.

pron on June 23, 2016 [–]

> but the original BMP isn't it and was never going to be it.

I concede this point. I still don't see why the Unicode Consortium should spend effort standardizing non-text as text.

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