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CREATED BY David Ness • LAST EDITED BY David Ness 7843 days AGO

Joel's piece has good and bad features. I suppose the simple-minded explanation may be necessary---and mildly informative---but he surely brushes under the rug most of the complexity of encoding issues. Things like ligatures represent complexities in encoding that arise well _before_ we have even started to concern ourselves with the even greater complexity of internationalization. These issues have considerable depth. They are decidedly _not_ simple. Thus, on balance, I find his piece more misleading than helpful.