Paul O'Leary McCann personal blog
A Spectre is Haunting Unicode
In 1978 Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry established the encoding that would later be known as JIS X 0208, which still serves as an important reference for all Japanese encodings. However, after the JIS standard was released people noticed something strange - several of the added characters had no…
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Software EngineeringSociety, Policy & Culture2018
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
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| Jul 29, 2018 | A Spectre is Haunting Unicode by hardmaru | 353 | 110 |
| Oct 31, 2020 | A Spectre Is Haunting Unicode (2018) by polm23 | 323 | 130 |
| Aug 15, 2026 | A spectre is haunting Unicode by sensanaty | 282 | 123 |
| Jul 14, 2022 | A Spectre Is Haunting Unicode (2018) by EvanAnderson | 268 | 180 |
Cited in comments
Linked from 6 Hacker News comments by 6 different people, from Nov 2018 to Jan 2025.
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- unscaled · Jan 11, 2025
- colinchartier · Aug 25, 2023
- shadowgovt · Sep 19, 2022
- alexpotato · Jul 14, 2022
- polm23 · Nov 9, 2020
