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I'd love to use unicode on a current project - but just the unicode library is bigger than the memory of the small computer being used :(

Seriously, unicode is appallingly messy and heavy-weight. With all that code-point space to burn, a rational design would be very different to what we've got.



All you need to know about unicode, is that they thought they could "unify" all the asian glyphs into one alphabet.

That said, given the origins of writing, I dont think there are any much cleaner solutions.

Their biggest mistake is probably not insisting on a mandatory vector representation which could be used to generate a "font-of-last-resort"

My personal pet-peeve is that unicode have not yet assigned 128 code points and two modifiers to cove all possible combinations of 7-segment LEDs :-)


They'd probably just define each of the segments separately and require you to use a zero width joiner.




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