Comment by zokier

While I do have some reservations about Unicode I think its important to note that nobody forces you to deal with all of it. I think programmers should embrace the idea of picking subsets of Unicode that they know how to handle correctly, instead of trying (and failing) to handle everything. DIN 91379 is one good example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIN_91379

Incidentally I believe that this is kinda also the approach HN takes, there is at least some Unicode filtering going on here.