Matthew Garrett on Nostr: Speaking of Unicode, I think many people would be surprised just how strong the ...
Speaking of Unicode, I think many people would be surprised just how strong the pushback against it was even in the early to mid 2000s. UTF-8 adoption in Linux was a fight.
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