social interaction is hard, baffling interaction with someone in a group chat
someone said something about "unicode in the 70s" and i attempted to politely point out that unicode didn't exist until 1987 at the earliest and then they started arguing, saying what i can only interpret as that because unicode intends to represent all human writing that all human writing can be considered to fall under the umbrella term unicode and just
no??? ??? ??????
when i try to explain the fact that unicode is a specific entity that did not exist before the late 80s they respond by saying i'm focusing too much on the coding and engineering side of things and ignoring the linguistics and humanities and just
that's a non-sequitur right?? i'm not missing something here????
seriously can someone tell me if i'm just missing something here and their argument makes sense?
You are right here. "Unicode" is a very specific term for a standard way of mapping characters onto numeric code points, not a catch-all term for "human writing systems in general".
@Felthry lmao no you're totally right