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+一二三四-->[TITLE]                                                      [DATE]
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+[SETTITLE]We Have Unicode at Home
+[SETDATE]6-30-2023
+Preface
+	it's just uses more memory, handwriting in the 70s, arabic/farsi
+	terminals, historically never existed an ascii only time. telegram codes
+busybox
+	bash
+	sed
+	awk
+	grep
+	bc
+	iconv
+	xxd
+	read
+	sort
+	uniq
+	cat
+tmux
+kbd
+	console-braille
+zpix bdf
+	30M
+zpix ttf
+	4.5MiB
+jizji
+	1.3M
+misaki
+	747K
+Google
+	2.7 MB
+LinBiolinumTI.pfb
+	860KiB
+HanaMinA
+	22M,30M
+unifont
+	11.7MiB
+Latex 2.9GiB
+cm-super
+	57.8MiB
+		just european languages + cyrillic
+cbfonts
+	70.6MiB
+ensembl human genome
+	4.5GiB
+Rant
+	Aesthetics vs. Function
+	cool-retro-term, pixel fonts, monospace of chinese vs english
+	
+	
+
+	The text confusion
+		In the beginning there was not the command line. There was wall
+		paintings bone etc
+
+		Inefficiency
+			The only first class data types on a computer are int,
+			uint, and float. Why is there not universal way to
+			display/store them on posix systems, 256 combos per byte,
+			only 9 used, less than 5% efficiency
+
+			HTML v. inefficient, easy to grep kinda 
+			Json, v. inefficient
+
+		Data confusion
+			IME
+			table takes in keypresses, spits out unicode character
+				keypresses should be own type, but is ascii,
+				what happens when different keyboard layout?
+
+				What happens if typing russiand and want to use
+				vim or press C-c?
+
+				Big table, very simple datatype, not first class
+
+				Tree/files, super simple datatype, not first
+				class, file argument woes
+
+			Display:
+				simply doing an OR required like 3 processes
+				because every program required different text
+				representation of the same data, even though
+				first class data type
+				
+				no language has first class lexer, closest is
+				awk
+
+				bdf file ridiculously inefficient, keywords too
+				long, actual data is 2x by hexadec
+				representation
+
+				bdf file is just a big table w/ 2d array as
+				output , very simple data type, have to do 1000
+				conversions for input (decimal codepoint vs
+				32bit vs utf-8), and output (2d array of bits vs
+				hex representation of the same)
+
+			Big table no way to sort to make more efficient
+
+		Representation
+			Forced to represent all out data so that the lowest
+			common denominator teletype in 1970s new jersey can
+			print it if we were to send it directly over serial
+				not just a bash issue: JSON, HTML, PDB, even
+				PDF/postscript
+			Ascii isn't event text, can't write accents or
+			directiona quotes or nn or even a bar over a letter.
+			Flipside, nobody who doesn't use posix knows or cares
+			what ~ and | are.
+
+			Regex, same basic thing, 30 different variants, because
+			forced to represent as text with no specialized symbols
+
+			same with code, every language has its own way of
+			representing a code block, none of which are
+			particularly legible
+
+			if should be one key press and one byte
+
+		In-band vs out of band
+			no universal way to embed data, json has directional
+			brackets, backslash hell is the norm, completely
+			avoidable, but the text obsession means type info is
+			ignored
+		guis
+			all based off of one dumb xerox experiment
+			all have same issues
+				lossy data display
+				no interop of actual data
+				no open loop input
+				no way to store input as its own data/scripting
+		
+			in memory data:
+				no interop, spend all your time using framework
+				libraries to convert data around. It's not just
+				a bash issue
+
+				weird selection of first class data types, why
+				is text 1st class and not a mesh or a linked
+				list?
+Rant
+	In the beginning, there was not a command line. In the beginning, there
+	was iron oxide pigment on torch lit cave walls, then there were stylus
+	indentations on clay, patterns carved on turtle shell, knots
+	tied in string, grooves cut in vinyl, and finally discrete states stored
+	in a great multitude of mechanisms. The universal datatype is not text,
+	it is uint_256, IEEE floating points.