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Re:Text Is the Universal Interface by falcolas on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @02:13PM (#33099148)
Constraining Unicode encodings to a fewer than 4 bytes means we limit how many countries can use text interfaces in their language. Or how much data from those countries can be passed between programs.
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Re:Text Is the Universal Interface by blueflow on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @02:45PM (#33099637)
We do not have enough countries to fill up all that space. For UTF-8 with a 4-byte restriction, less than 18% of the available space is currently allocated to blocks.
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