[ramshorns]

What would a minimal and sane variant of Unicode be like? Removing the weird behaviour of Unicode would necessarily mean removing support for some characters, like those that only exist in decomposed form with combining diacritics, and some types of scripts like right-to-left. Mapping code points, characters and graphemes one-to-one seems like it would make text processing easier at the cost of excluding a large portion of the character set.

I guess it would form a middle ground; US-ASCII is also a minimal subset of Unicode where text processing is easy.

[karlmdavis]

Ding ding! Hard things are hard.

It seems... at least a bit arrogant for a developer that doesn't write any of the languages that rely on these features to claim that they're insane and excessive.