UTF-8 Unicode operators vs digraphs

Dlighted test at example.com
Fri Aug 14 17:48:02 UTC 2026


On Friday, 14 August 2026 at 14:56:06 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> You forgot Chinese.  Each character is composed of any number 
> of radicals, including other characters, in completely 
> arbitrary 2D layouts with completely arbitrary distortions and 
> simplifications to shoehorn everything into a square block. 
> (Look up "Biangbiang noodles" in Wikipedia sometime, for 
> laughs.)  Unicode literally threw up its hands and embraced the 
> combinatorial explosion instead of trying to reason with it. :-D
To humans but to the computer chinese is also simple. It's just a 
bunch of squares lined up in a row. Even easier than Latin. Just 
more glyphs. They write left to right on computers today and 
don't need bidi.


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