Comment by Dylan16807
9 hours ago
What about Unicode isn't forward compatible?
UCS-2 was an encoding mistake, but even it was pretty forward compatible
9 hours 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)