UTF-8 can represent any Unicode code point. If there is a character that it can’t represent, then that’s because that character is not encoded in Unicode; it has nothing to do with UTF-8 itself.
Re:Text editing hates you too (2019)
by kayodelycaon on Saturday May 22, 2021 @10:04AM
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Not being in Unicode is what I meant.
Re:Text editing hates you too (2019)
by microtherion on Friday May 21, 2021 @11:06PM
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One of the most ridiculous places to insist on ASCII recently was... the Unicode consortium: https://twitter.com/Laserhedvig/status/1395338394713079810
This. My name is Kayodé Lycaon. Note the é... how many places don’t support it? Some people consider names to be sacred and changing the spelling is more than a little offensive. Even UTF-8 can’t represent all characters in use. I believe there are Japanese names that can’t be represented by its character set.
I get it’s technically difficult but so many places treat people who are different as edge cases to be optimized away.