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  • 🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦ZDL@mstdn.social
    Oct 9, 2026, 8:19 AM

    @dancingtreefrog Yep. All the Latin-based writing systems got stuck together, but that was before Unicode; it inherited that particular mess.

    But it didn't inherit the CJK Han Unification mess. There was a Japanese encoding that had that solved BEFORE Unicode existed. And the ISO explicitly binned a solution that Japan came up with, with Korean (and presumably Chinese but I don't know) support and forced Han Unification without consensus of the three nations involved.

    Because of course.

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  • David W. Jonesdancingtreefrog@mastodon.social
    Oct 9, 2026, 8:45 AM

    @ZDL Oh, yes, colonialist tradition. "You may have had civilizations 2000 years before us, but we know best!"

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  • David W. Jonesdancingtreefrog@mastodon.social
    Oct 9, 2026, 9:03 AM

    @ZDL I think that particular mess also came out of colonialist views that UK/France/Germany and derivatives (Netherlands, Belgium, etc) were superior to other parts of Europe (such as Italy, Greece, Russia, Poland, Spain, the nations of the Caucasus, etc). No real need to address the needs of the inferiors except insofar as it impacted the needs of the superiors.

    Stupid humans, as if speaking different languages meant you weren't the same humans under it all. 😞

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