On 2/3/23 23:16, Tomoaki AOKI wrote:
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And FreeBSD already has UTF-8. ;-)
Drawbacks of UTF-8 are...
*Han unification. Not exactly same but lookalike characters in
Japanese, Chinese and Korean are fatally missingly unified.
*Lack of proper support for variant forms of characters.
Maybe Unicode should have another 2 dimensions, one for classifying
wrongly unified CJK characters and another one for variants.
I confess that I don't know enough to comment on those.
*Font sets. Very limited number of fonts covers the whole
Unicode codepoints that are assigned any of actual character.
*FreeBSD base does not have full Unicode font for vt yet.
(Input methods are the different problem, though.)
Yes, but FreeBSD is making progress on remedying these problems. Many
fonts DO have support for the codepoints I need, though. I think these
are less of a problem than the problems that UTF-8 solves. -- George
