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Comment by EvanAnderson

4 years ago

Yikes. If somebody hasn’t written a “falsehoods programmers believe about human writing systems” document this would make for a good start.

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cestith  4 years ago

It deserves its own entry in "falsehoods programmers believe about names" lists too.

  • lmkg  4 years ago

    It's already there, #11 "People’s names are all mapped in Unicode code points."

    • Scarblac  4 years ago

      The falsehood here is thinking that if you can encode the name into the right code points, and you have a font that can print them, the result will be acceptable to the people whose name it is.

      They had that, but needed a font that used a different number of strokes for the characters because of the superstition.

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