alt Hacker NewsBlame the Unicode consortium for not coming up UTF-8 first (or, really, at all). And for assuming that 65526 code points would be enough for everyone.
So many problems could be solved with a time machine.
Blame the Unicode consortium for not coming up UTF-8 first (or, really, at all). And for assuming that 65526 code points would be enough for everyone.
So many problems could be solved with a time machine.
The first draft of Unicode was in 1988. Thompson and Pike came up with UTF-8 in 1992, made an RFC in 1998. UTF-16 came along in 1996, made an RFC in 2000.
The time machine would've involved Microsoft saying "it's clear now that USC-2 was a bad idea, so let's start migrating to something genuinely better".