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Daniil Baturin

baturin.org

This is my home page. I know home pages is not a popular genre these days and it probably makes me look old fashioned.

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Life Before Unicode

Unicode definitely added a lot of complexity to string handling, and people who use languages with ASCII alphabets exclusively may think it's unjustified. However, I'm a non-ASCII language speaker who's old enough to remember the alternatives, and the alternatives are far worse than the complexity of Unicode.