2026-09-18 08:24 UTC
Having separate code points for upper- and lowercase letters was a mistake.
It has created so many headaches for both programmers and non-technical people alike.
Treating capitalization as formatting would have made so many things so much easier.
There, I said it.
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@elmord@functional.cafe 2026-09-18 13:56
@kechpaja@social.kechpaja.com Looking forward to a featural character encoding, where all character properties (uppercase vs. lowercase, superscript, subscript, etc) are encoded as separate combining codepoints