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Re:Languages: Why we must save dying tongues (2014) by douche on Sunday July 03, 2016 @07:32PM (#12028112)
If for no other reason, I would be psyched to see a single language win out, especially if it were an alphabetic language that could easily be encoded in 8 bits. Fuck Unicode.
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Re:Languages: Why we must save dying tongues (2014) by viraptor on Monday July 04, 2016 @10:17AM (#12030901)
It wouldn't solve a problem of transcribing the old texts, or when using mathematical notation or other symbols inline. They still need unicode.
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Re:Languages: Why we must save dying tongues (2014) by danieltillett on Sunday July 03, 2016 @08:49PM (#12028358)
LOL. Only on HN would such a reason for one world language be made.
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