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tethatoday at 7:43 PM1 replyview on HN

That ship has sailed, but I consider Unicode a good thing, yet I consider it problematic to support Unicode in every domain.

I should be able to use Ü as a cursed smiley in text, and many more writing systems supported by Unicode support even more funny things. That's a good thing.

On the other hand, if technical and display file names (to GUI users) were separate, my need for crazy characters in file names, code bases and such are very limited. Lower ASCII for actual file names consumed by technical people is sufficient to me.


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WalterBrighttoday at 9:00 PM

> That ship has sailed

Sure, but more crazy stuff gets added all the time.