Comment by Dylan16807
1 day ago
What about Unicode isn't forward compatible?
UCS-2 was an encoding mistake, but even it was pretty forward compatible
1 day ago
What about Unicode isn't forward compatible?
UCS-2 was an encoding mistake, but even it was pretty forward compatible
"Unicode" here means the OG Unicode that was supposed to fit all of past, current and future languages in exactly 16 bits.
Yes, it's a silly idea but it's exactly the reason why Python, Javascript and Java use the most brainded way of storing text known to man. (UCS-2)
> "Unicode" here means the OG Unicode that was supposed to fit all of past, current and future languages in exactly 16 bits.
Well... it explicitly wasn't supposed to fit all past characters when they decided on 16 bits.
And they weren't sure on size for a while, and only kept it for a couple years, so I would make the fact that you're complaining about the 16 bits more explicit.
But also it did turn out to be forward compatible. That's part of why we're stuck with it!