• Knusper@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    They believed 65,536 characters would be enough for all human languages.

    Gotta love these kind of misjudgements. Obviously, they were pushing against pretty hard size restrictions back then, but at the same time, they did have the explicit goal of fitting in all languages and if you just look at the Asian languages, it should be pretty clear that it’s not a lot at all…