Re: Simple string conversion from UCS2 to ISO8859-1

On Mon, 24 Feb 2025 08:27:19 +0100, Janis Papanagnou wrote:

Given what's all collected in Unicode they've long passed the line where
one more or less character would matter. ;-)

Unicode isn’t a collection of characters as such, it’s a collection of
code points. And yes, every code point is there for a reason.

Remember the proposal to add code points for country icons like 🇳🇿, 🇺🇳 and
🇪🇺 got rejected? Remember what they did instead?