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xg15today at 8:58 AM0 repliesview on HN

> some unicode programming script (running Doom)

I agree with you that Unicode urgently needs a scripting capability (*), but my plan was to just implement it using invisible tag characters [1] or something like that - but of course allowing a script to be written in a single codepoint is the much more elegant solution.

It also neatly solves the problem of how to write Unicode strings inside scripts inside Unicode strings and also scripts inside Unicode strings inside scripts inside Unicode strings.

(*) in RFC 04-01-2027

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tags_(Unicode_block)