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Farley Flud wrote:
> Like all the other fucking incompetent assholes in this world,
> the Unicode consortium has fucked it all up.
> 
> Unicode only contains 32-bit (i.e. 4 byte) characters!
> 
> Now, 32-bits is an awful lot but it's not FUTURE PROOF.
> 
> An example is the math code pages which define all currently
> used math symbols -- but what about the fucking future?
> 
> Math is not dead.  It will grow over the next few centuries
> and so will its symbols.
> 
> What's true for math is certainly true for other areas.
> 
> Thus Unicode, in a relatively short time, will have to scrap
> its current form and devise a whole new coding.  The problem
> is similar to the "Year 2000" or "Year 2038" issues but will
> be much more difficult to resolve.
> 
> They should have started with a 64-bit, or even 128-bit,
> encoding.  So what if there are vast empty blocks.  That
> space is reserved for the future.
> 
> Unicode should be a project for millennia and not for the
> lifetime of the short-sighted assholes who first introduced
> it.
> 
> Note: In this, as with everything else, GNU/Linux/FOSS will
> lead the way.  We need universal and open standards and not
> protectionism for grubbing private corps.
> 
everything you just said is available