How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode characters
I already ranted about unicode earlier today, my main argument is, that unicode is what happens if everybody qualified thinks: &quot;That&#x27;s a great idea, of course you have to handle X and Y and Z and I just remember that I forgot to fill out several warranty cards.&quot;<p>This blog post is a nice example, I have absolutely no idea how these new code points are supposed to look like, since I only spend an afternoon to implement the unicode best practices from the Arch wiki, instead of subscribing to some unicode standard mailing list. (Except the one symbol which was redefined to a symbol that does not carry the semantic meaning of &quot;standby symbol&quot; anywhere outside of the unicode standard.)<p>In my opinion there are two ways forward, one burn the entire thing. Or alternatively, force the unicode committee to produce an authoritative and complete font, in triplicate, and in their own blood.