An assessment of the Unicode standard

Chris Jones cjns1989 at gmail.com
Sat Aug 29 20:07:19 EDT 2009


On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 07:12:26PM EDT, Stephen Hansen wrote:
> >
> > Unicode (*puke*) seems nothing more than a brain fart of morons. And
> > sadly it was created by CS majors who i assumed used logic and
> > deductive reasoning but i must be wrong. Why should the larger world
> > keep supporting such antiquated languages and character sets through
> > Unicode? What purpose does this serve? Are we merely trying to make
> > everyone happy? A sort of Utopian free-language-love-fest-kinda-
> > thing?
> >
> 
> One really shouldn't consider Xah Lee a role model and seek to imitate
> (poorly) his rants.

:-)

CJ



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