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by oblio 4012 days ago
Text editing is not simple. Not since Unicode is a thing. And it's not because of Unicode, it's because of us humans and our crazy languages.
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Totally agree with you there. I've been reading over the Unicode spec and some of it makes my head spin. I would have never imagined the required level of complexity beforehand.
And the language Atom is written in supports Unicode very badly indeed, to keep things relevant to the topic at hand.