Stop doing Unicode — критика Юникода
Сатирическая картинка с заголовком «STOP DOING UNICODE», высмеивающая особенности и историю стандарта Unicode. На изображении перечислены претензии к кодировке: символы якобы не должны были становиться кодовыми точками, у некоторых редких письменностей не нашлось реального применения, а для забавных эмоций раньше существовал MS Paint вместо эмодзи и текстовых символов.
STOP DOING UNICODE • CHARACTERS WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE CODEPOINTS • YEARS OF STANDARD yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for MONGOLIAN NIRUGU • Wanted to send funny emoticons to your friends? We had a tool for that: It was called "MSPAINT" • "Yes please type country flags and food. Please give me skin tones" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged LOOK at what unicoders have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the fonts & editors we built for them (This is REAL Unicode, done by REAL Unicoders): ????? ??????? ?????????????????? "Hello I would like ��� 🍎🍎 please" They have played us for absolute fools