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   Niki Tonsky (nikitonsky@mastodon.online)'s status on Sunday, 08-Oct-2023 00:36:06 JST Niki Tonsky

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   • Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:
   • Charlie Loyd

   @isagalaev @vruba not by default, no. What’s "🤦🏼♂️".length in your language of choice?

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     Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw: (isagalaev@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 08-Oct-2023 00:36:07 JST Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:

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     • Charlie Loyd

     @vruba but isn't it a solved problem by now? Nobody writes new software that's not unicode-aware (and it would be hard to do, because all the systems and languages do it by default now). Converting old software is another matter of course, but that's not specific to Unicode.

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     Charlie Loyd (vruba@everything.happens.horse)'s status on Sunday, 08-Oct-2023 00:36:13 JST Charlie Loyd

     Dear software people,

     Unicode is older now than ASCII was when Unicode was introduced. It’s not a weird new fad.

     It’s complicated but so is the domain it represents. We recognize that we have to think about time zones and leap days and seconds, for instance. And it’s a cleaner abstraction when you aren’t halfhearted about it.

     Sincerely,
     Charlie