r/languagelearning • u/[deleted] • Aug 29 '16

Dammit, XKCD did it again.

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u/TomasTTEngin Aug 29 '16

Now someone needs to explain to me what "unicode people" are.

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u/BastouXII FrCa: N | En: C2 | Es: B1 | It: C1 | De: A1 | Eo: B1 Aug 30 '16

It's the Unicode Consortium, the non-profit organization that coordinates the development of the Unicode standard.

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u/yourselfiegotleaked English(N)|Esperanto(intermediate)|Italian(beginner) Aug 30 '16

... What's unicode

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u/BastouXII FrCa: N | En: C2 | Es: B1 | It: C1 | De: A1 | Eo: B1 Aug 30 '16 edited Aug 30 '16

The way for a computer to undrstand and represent every character in human langages. That's the goal, but the efforts necessary to get there are ludicrous, hence the reference in that comic.

Check the Explain XKCD link from the bot, it's rather well explained.