Comment by socalgal2
What could be better? Human languages are complex
What could be better? Human languages are complex
The elephant in the room is Han Unification but there are plenty of other issues. Here is one of my favourites from another thread just two days ago.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44971254
This is the rejected proposal.
https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2003/03215-n2593-umlaut-trema.pd...
If you read thread from above you will find more examples from other people.
sure, but they have both human and machine stuff in the same "universe" - again, sure, it made sense, but maybe it would make sense to have a parser that helps to recover "human stuff" from "machine gibberish" (ie. filter out the presentation and control stuff), but, but, of course some in-band logic makes sense, after all, for the combinations (diacritics, emoji skin color, and so on).
Yes, exactly, human languages are complex and in my opinion Unicode used to be on a good track to tackle these complexities. I just think that nowadays they are not doing enough to help people around the world solving these problems.