Think you're on www.apple.com (and the HTTPS padlock appears), think again!
It only appears as if you're on www.apple.com because the "l" in apple is actually some unicode that is rendered visually similar.
ASCII for all commands / domain names / files names / anything that can be referenced from a command prompt. Unicode maybe if you want to put it in a word processor document or PDF.
This article sounds like someone just learned about abstraction and is like, “see a computer only have 0,1 so it can’t language lol” binary is a language you twat
This article is full of abstract reasons why Unicode is bad that seem to all boil down to "computers don't language", but what the hell is the point? Humans need to use computers to get things done, ergo, humans need to make computers speak their language, end of story. Getting things done is the only thing that matters in the end.
And he didn't even go after the low hanging fruit, UTF-16.
10 comments
6 u/niggatron 04 Nov 2018 15:53
Unreadable. A wall of wank.
0 u/UsedToBeCujoQuarrel 04 Nov 2018 15:46
God that was stupid.
0 u/Men13 04 Nov 2018 16:13
The stupidest thing I could ever imagine someone would say about Unicode would still be better than this nonsense.
0 u/a_fucking_dude 04 Nov 2018 16:16
That was retarded. Unicode is a pain in the ass which was devised for a reason: not all languages fit nicely into ascii. Duh.
0 u/captainstrange [OP] 04 Nov 2018 17:32
The best part of of ASCII is it didn't accommodate gooks so it forced other cultures to learn english.
'Not all languages fit nicely into ascii', because all languages that don't should be dropped in favor of english.
0 u/TechInfo 10 Nov 2018 00:41
Unicode in domain names is especially nasty. Here's an example of how unicode in domain names lets you get phished with ease
Think you're on www.apple.com (and the HTTPS padlock appears), think again!
It only appears as if you're on www.apple.com because the "l" in apple is actually some unicode that is rendered visually similar.
ASCII for all commands / domain names / files names / anything that can be referenced from a command prompt. Unicode maybe if you want to put it in a word processor document or PDF.
edit: fixed grammar
0 u/oioiiooi 01 Jan 2019 20:22
Computer should render all non-ascii chars with a little star of David on them. That way you know the true "l" from the false ones.
0 u/AlpineTree 02 Jan 2019 00:15
This article sounds like someone just learned about abstraction and is like, “see a computer only have 0,1 so it can’t language lol” binary is a language you twat
0 u/captainstrange [OP] 03 Jan 2019 20:19
Ok.
0 u/unlimitedrulebook 18 Jan 2019 00:07
This article is full of abstract reasons why Unicode is bad that seem to all boil down to "computers don't language", but what the hell is the point? Humans need to use computers to get things done, ergo, humans need to make computers speak their language, end of story. Getting things done is the only thing that matters in the end.
And he didn't even go after the low hanging fruit, UTF-16.