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"Unicode is overcomplicated and should be simpler"

Name: Anonymous 2017-01-10 14:01

"Languages are complex!"

how does everyone already know this thought terminating cliche?

Name: Anonymous 2017-01-11 6:38

whom are you quoting?

Name: Anonymous 2017-01-11 11:01

>>2
Gerold Jay Sussmann

Name: Anonymous 2017-01-11 12:15

>>2
myself and then someone that replied to me. it's happened many times though. People think "languages are complex" is a good answer to "unicode is too complex".

Name: Anonymous 2017-01-11 13:01

>>4
There's no other way to encode all of humanity's writings in a single unified way. Is there a simpler way of doing all this?

Name: Anonymous 2017-01-11 13:20

>>4
Using Unicode to encode all the complexity of all languages ever is okay, why would that be a bad thing?

Piles of poo and emoji, on the other hand, have no reason to be in Unicode.

Name: Anonymous 2017-01-11 13:48

>>6
Fun fact: emoji are a complex language in and of itself. They are actually Swahili!

Name: Anonymous 2017-01-11 14:14

>>5
why does a way to encode all of humanity's writings in a single unified way include emoji?

Name: Anonymous 2017-01-11 14:40

>>5
Is there a simpler way of doing all this?

I'm glad that you're asking this question.

What I'm trying ot get across is that most people refuse to ask this, they just say "buh buh buh buh homan is complex too" and stop thinking right there.

Maybe unicode (forgetting emoji for a sec) is optimal maybe it's not, but most people aren't even able to consider that.

Name: Anonymous 2017-01-11 16:42

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Name: Anonymous 2017-01-11 16:43

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Name: Anonymous 2017-01-11 16:43

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Name: Anonymous 2017-01-11 18:53

Unicode is racist. Why do white male characters get the best codepoints?

Name: Anonymous 2017-01-11 22:52

>>8
There's plenty of room for 1000 different emoji. Those ideograms are no different to wingdings style ideograms or hieroglyphics. We know for a fact that emoji are commonly used in Japan and we also know that many westerners also use it. By all these facts together, I don't really see why it shouldn't be included.

Name: Anonymous 2017-01-12 0:19

>>13
Why do white male characters get the best codepoints?
They don't. The codepoints in the U+1F6xx range are simply named 'face', not 'white face'. Nobody hinders you from replacing the graphics with e.g. black, yellow, red, or pink faces and still be standards compliant.
In fact, the emoticons in this range stem from japanese people1, not caucasian.

1https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticons_%28Unicode_block%29 -- "They exist largely for compatibility with Japanese telephone carriers' implementations of Shift JIS."

Name: Anonymous 2017-01-12 3:42

>>13
Text is racist. Why is text coloured black by default?

Name: Anonymous 2017-01-12 4:02

>>16
Tan text would be the most moderate
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