Some reading on IRIs and IDNs

[John Cowan]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 11:27 AM Petite Abeille <petite.abeille at gmail.com>
wrote:


> It all boils down to the unmeasurable joy of Unicode ☻
>

As someone who is intimately familiar with i18n in the pre-Unicode era, I
can say that things were 100 times worse then.  Unicode is flawed because
it had to compromise with existing encodings, which is why we need
normalization.  But without that compromise (which permits 1-1
convertibility from almost all encodings to and from Unicode), it would
never have been so widely adopted.


> Perhaps Unicode should be abandoned altogether, and we all move back to to
> the original simplicity of ASCII.


Perhaps we should abandon all modern languages and just use Latin on the
Internet.

John Cowan          http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan        cowan at ccil.org
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