Skip to main content
Search type Search syntax
Tags [tag]
Exact "words here"
Author user:1234
user:me (yours)
Score score:3 (3+)
score:0 (none)
Answers answers:3 (3+)
answers:0 (none)
isaccepted:yes
hasaccepted:no
inquestion:1234
Views views:250
Code code:"if (foo != bar)"
Sections title:apples
body:"apples oranges"
URL url:"*.example.com"
Saves in:saves
Status closed:yes
duplicate:no
migrated:no
wiki:no
Types is:question
is:answer
Exclude -[tag]
-apples
For more details on advanced search visit our help page
Results tagged with
Search options answers only not deleted user 8927

The Universal Character Set (Unicode, ISO 10646): standardisation history, early adopters and conversion between it and retro character sets.

3 votes

Could we have avoided the whole UTF-16 fiasco?

Much of what's in Unicode could as well, and would likely be much better encoded, by metadata/markup. … Unicode (necessarily, being forced) partially did go that route with e.g. the LRM/RLM markers. …
Damon's user avatar
  • 189