A fork for the time-zone database?

Posted Oct 1, 2021 11:23 UTC (Fri) by tonyfinn (guest, #144891)
In reply to: A fork for the time-zone database? by flussence
Parent article: A fork for the time-zone database?

That would be an interesting discussion: "Levitating man in business suit" is too japan centric, better get rid of it.

Backticks are confusing because of dead keys and confusion with quotation marks, they only get into the valuable one byte characters because programmers designed the spec, better relocate them.

A fork for the time-zone database?

Posted Oct 2, 2021 1:48 UTC (Sat) by tialaramex (subscriber, #21167) [Link]

"Levitating man in business suit" is a symbol from an album by British ska band "The Specials", via the WingDings Windows font. So, nothing whatsoever to do with Japan.

A fork for the time-zone database?

Posted Oct 10, 2021 0:01 UTC (Sun) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link]

Along those lines one of the weirder things Unicode does is to declare U+037E (Greek question mark) semantically identical to an ascii semicolon, not just a homoglyph or when NFK[CD] is used. A sufficiently pedantic text parser - which do exist in the wild - is allowed to silently replace the multibyte one with the single byte one. It's great for nasty source code tricks, but I'm not sure if it has a practical use.