I'm going to need CGP Grey to do a video like that "wtf is the united kingdom" one, but for unicode code points. Code points, scalars, surrogates, noncharacters, and so on all in one big maddening Venn diagram.

[danderson@hachyderm.io]

I'm going to need CGP Grey to do a video like that "wtf is the united kingdom" one, but for unicode code points. Code points, scalars, surrogates, noncharacters, and so on all in one big maddening Venn diagram.

[robpike@hachyderm.io]

@danderson In fairness, what Unicode is trying to do is put all human writing under one umbrella. The result was never going to be pretty.

[danderson@hachyderm.io]

@robpike Absolutely. Given the hand it was dealt by the sum of all cultures and traditions, it's doing a remarkable job.