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by unityByFreedom 2169 days ago
Where does Unicode not work? It’s been everywhere for years
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He even has emojis for the "avatar"...
Because the content density varies in different languages.

For example, each english word has ~7 ascii chars, but each chinese / japanese / korean words only has ~2 unicode chars

That doesn’t have anything to do with the tech being standard and easy to implement.