[PeterisP]

If you want to handle characters by anything much simpler than current Unicode, you need to simplify the reality that Unicode describes, changing or eliminating a bunch of major human languages. Not all of them, and not even most of them, but still hundreds of millions of people would need to change how they use their language.

It could happen in a century or two, actually, we are seeing some language trends that do favor internationalization and simplification over localization and keeping with linguistic tradition.

[vorg]

Simplication (caused by internationalization) and diversification (caused by localization) are two ends of a spectrum, but languages, both their spoken and written forms, have bounced between those ends throughout history. In a century or two, by the time simplification has succeeded on Earth, the settlers on Titan will rebel with their own graphical symbols for displaying language.

[hackuser]

> we are seeing some language trends that do favor internationalization and simplification over localization and keeping with linguistic tradition.

I know you're not necessarily advocating it, but if our cultures change to adapt to our technological limitations, that's the reverse of what I think should be happening - there's a problem with the tech.

[voaie]

Right, there will be less common languages. The faded ones could be kept in the digital world by using special fonts.