Comment by torstenvl

> You’re arguing against a strawman.

Ironic.

> The advice wasn’t to ignore learning about code points

I didn't say "learning about."

Look man. People operate at different levels of abstraction, depending on what they're doing.

If you're doing front-end web dev, sure, don't worry about it. If you're hacking on a text editor in C, then you probably ought to be able to take a string of UTF-8 bytes, decode them into code points, and apply the grapheme clustering algorithm to them, taking into account your heuristics about what the terminal supports. And then probably either printing them to the screen (if it seems like they're supported) or printing out a representation of the code points. So yeah, you kind of have to know.

So don't sit there and presume to tell others what they should or should not reason about, based solely on what you assume their use case is.