Comment by zahlman

Comment by zahlman 11 hours ago

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A big part of the problem is that the reaction to early updates was so bad that they promised they would never un-assign or re-assign a code point ever again, making it impossible for them to actually correct any mistakes (not even typos in the official standard names given to characters).

The versioning is actually almost completely backwards by semver reasoning; 1.1 should have been 2.0, 2.0 should have been 3.0 and we should still be on 3.n now (since they have since kept the promise not to remove anything).