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by tialaramex 1863 days ago
Unicode reflects a reality about human writing systems. They are very complicated. This is more or less guaranteed to result in Unicode being contentious.

After all, it's obvious features my native language has are important and need to be first class APIs in the standard library, while any features that language doesn't use has aren't important and the standard library shouldn't be clogged up with anything so useless. Also things that are easy to do for my preferred writing system must be supported, if the easy way to implement them doesn't work for some other widely used languages, just ignore that, those people don't matter anyway.