> On Aug 12, 2024, at 5:45 AM, danielha...@gmail.com wrote: > > After reading Rowan's last message, it feels appropriate to link to this: > > "The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in > 2023 (Still No Excuses!)" > > https://tonsky.me/blog/unicode/ <https://tonsky.me/blog/unicode/> Good read! Thank you for mentioning it.
A really standout paragraph from that link is: "IMO, the whole situation is a shame. Unicode should be in the stdlib of every language by default. It’s the lingua franca of the internet! It’s not even new: we’ve been living with Unicode for 20 years now." I'll just leave that right here. :-) -Mike P.S. Channeling Larry and Derick: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/unicode_text_processing <https://wiki.php.net/rfc/unicode_text_processing>