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Re:The sad history of Unicode printf-style format specifiers... by fomine3 on Friday December 02, 2022 @12:33AM (#33827196)
ISO 2022 isn't beautiful solution like UTF-8 self sync encoding. Backward compatibility is also great (so called UTF FSS). It was designed by smart Plan9 people.
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Re:The sad history of Unicode printf-style format specifiers... by manholio on Saturday December 03, 2022 @02:15AM (#33841433)
If Ken and Pike could design it in an afternoon, I'm sure even a standards committee could have done it in less than 5 years or so, the ideas are straight forward.

I would also argue that the fast sync with at most one character consumed is a good feature but not essential for adoption. Any byte-oriented Unicode packing scheme that can gracefully consume ASCII is better than multibyte, codepages sent out-of-band etc. etc.

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