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Re:Why was western printing superior to Asian printing? by Mordisquitos on Sunday September 04, 2022 @04:10AM (#32710943)
Lucky our printing technology has moved past moveable type and mechanical typesetting in recent years. My printer is not that new and can already print all extended Latin characters and maybe even some emojis.
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Re:Why was western printing superior to Asian printing? by WalterBright on Sunday September 04, 2022 @04:23AM (#32711022)
From time to time, people ask for D to support Unicode operator code points. I decided it wasn't a good idea, as it makes code more difficult to type in, and there's the problem of text processing programs' (like editors, printers, etc.) support for non-ASCII being rather unpredictable.

> maybe even some

I.e. unreliable :-/

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Re:Why was western printing superior to Asian printing? by thrown_22 on Sunday September 04, 2022 @02:12PM (#32715936)
Change is not progress.

It took millennia for us to go from emojis to characters and the few societies that did ended up dominating the world because of the increases in efficiency. Now we're heading in the other direction because literacy is too hard.

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