Is Unicode support so hard...

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jmfauth於 2013年4月21日星期日UTC+8上午1時12分43秒寫道：
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> Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick wrote:
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> “Is Unicode support so hard, especially in the 21st century?”
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> Unicode is not really complicate and it works very well (more
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> than two decades of development if you take into account
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> iso-14****).
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> But, - I can say, "as usual" - people prefer to spend their
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> time to make a "better Unicode than Unicode" and it usually
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> fails. Python does not escape to this rule.
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> I'm "busy" with TeX (unicode engine variant), fonts and typography.
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> This gives me plenty of ideas to test the "flexible string
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> representation" (FSR). I should recognize this FSR is failing
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> particulary very well...
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> I can almost say, a delight.
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> jmf
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> Unicode lover

To support the unicode is easy in the language part.
But to support the unicode in a platform involves
the OS and the display and input hardware devices 
which are not suitable to be free most of the time.