Unicode was a mistake

Unicode was a mistake.
JavaScript was a mistake.
Windows started off OK but morphed into a mistake.

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>Unicode was a mistake.

This thread is a mistake.

Anime was a mistake

Computers were a mistake.

>Unicode was a mistake.
Unicode is fine. It's certainly a fuck load better than what was there before.
Now, I will agree that UTF-16 was a mistake. UTF-8 and UTF-32 are good, though.

Time was a mistake.

mistake

>Windows started off OK
In what way?

Jesus fucking Christ is no one going to check the fucking box?

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Was that so hard? Goddamn.

Checked

Speaking of Windows being a mistake, is there any way to disable the behavior in which Windows shows you literally every other window you have open when you snap one of the windows to either side of the display for a side-by-side view?
Super annoying.

The only mistake in Unicode was Han unification.

nvm found it

>Check the box to continue. [ ]

>using a control element for options as an action element
Your choice of UI element was a mistake

OP was a mistake [x]

>Now, I will agree that UTF-16 was a mistake.
this is what I came here to post.

UTF-16 isn't a mistake, it's a compatibility hack forced on all of the forward thinking developers that built their software around UCS-2 and got hosed when the supplementary multilingual plane was announced.

UCS-2 was also a mistake. It was easily foreseeable that 2^16 codepoints would be woefully inadequate.

So? That doesn't mean that it's not shit.
It's literally the "worst of both worlds" solution to UTF-8 and UTF-32.
There is no legitimate reason to use it today.

If you call something a mistake, the implication is the people who made it didn't know what they were doing. UTF-16 accomplished what it was made for even if everyone would rather it went away. The reason to use it is compatibility with systems that got dragged into using it through no fault of their own by the Unicode consortium's earlier mistakes.

So everyone has to suffer because Windows and Java were fucking retarded?
Just put it down already.

Windows and Java were using UCS-2 when it was put forward as a universal fixed-width character encoding. Everyone has to suffer because the Unicode Consortium changed their mind about that when they realized their standard didn't have enough space for what it was intended for.

It's especially bitter because it was one of MS's rare moments of forward-thinking and cooperation at a time when they were just starting to piss all over industry standards and interoperability, and they got shoved in the dirt for it.

Did I do it right op? Can I continue?

Now that this is done
You are a faggot

And emoji.

How things should be done

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>Unicode was a mistake.
[citation needed]

How did you solve it?

op was a mistake

Sent you the fix ;)

God giving mankind freewill was a mistake

White men were a mistake.

And allowing different encodings. And being totally opaque.

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>It's certainly a fuck load better than what was there before.
better != even barely acceptable

free will was a mistake

it's cool bro it's sorted now

Pajeets were a mistake

OP is a faggot [x]

Computer Scainse is pack of ignorance scamers

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