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

Emojis and hieroglyphs aside, 16bit was not enough for CJK characters. It's a real world problem---a character set that can't spell people's name or location can't be universally adopted.

pron on June 23, 2016 [–]

That's a real problem, I admit, but it still doesn't justify the Unicode consortium standardizing pictures as text.

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