Hard lessons2022-06-27 · Archive
Let's stop ascribing meaning to code points (2017)
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“We agree that extended grapheme clusters are unsuitable for persistent indexing, but you have failed to sell the virtues of scalar values.”
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Let's stop ascribing meaning to code points (2017)
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