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It’ll be added when they’d find some free time!
You see, adding pictures women with white cane facing right, limes and pregnant men is a very important and time consuming job! Standardizing encoding for some human language people use is just not as important!
These are emojis, not unicode right?
Edit: well, TIL.
Emoji are part of unicode. And people demand more of them, so it’s no surprise they put effort into those, even if OP thinks they are not important.Few people appreciate the unicode consortium for their originally intended work.
Random transphobia mixed in amongst a good point.
Oh please share, what character set?
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I can’t read “what a time to be alive” without hearing Two Minute Papers in my head
hold onto your papers
I immediately thought of Leeroy Jenkins in the last sentence.
Pretty certain it’s an intentional reference.
You’re right, and someone else might be a part of the lucky 10,000 today.
And now we have the obligatory xkcd reference. 😁
longer than necessary
It’s as long as it needs to be unique
Sure. OK. How about we put the Greek alphabet at the lower code points and the Latin alphabet higher up, and now you might argue that Latin takes up more space than necessary.
Potential counterpoint: “This is stupid. Latin goes in the lower code points, it always has, it always will. Who’s putting Greek down there??”
Well, if Greece had invented computing as well as, let’s say, democracy that’s very likely how things would be.
In that timeline, someone is using exactly the same line on you “[The representation of Latin text in memory i]s as long as it needs to be unique.” and you’re annoyed because your short letter to Grandma is using far too much space on your hard drive.
Oh true. I’d be so annoyed because I somehow wrote a whole letter to Grandma in English which she couldn’t read.
And it has 333 upvotes! We must maintain this at all costs…
