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Arnt on May 29, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Unicode is hard

Wait. There are two possible cases:

1. Either your restrict yourself to the kind of text CP437/MCS/ASCII can handle (to name the three codecs in the blog posting). In that case unicode normalisation is a noop, and you can use unicode without understanding all its quirks.

2. Or you don't restrict the input, in which case unicode may be hard, but using CP437/MCS/ASCII will be incomparably harder.

nuopnu on May 29, 2017 [–]

A rocket can take you to the Moon. Is it easy to operate? Or to learn how to? To maintain it and prepare on the ground?

Not just it would be harder, but you couldn't get into space without it at all, so that got comparatively easier.

Is it still all easy, though?

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