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Text Editing Hates You Too (2019)
Alexis Beingessner's Text Rendering Hates You, published exactly a month ago today, hits very close to my heart. Back in 2017, I was building a rich text editor in the browser.
Many editors, like TextEdit, won't even allow us to put a caret after the a, since the skin tone modifier is treated as a single unit with its previous character. For the Latin alphabet used by English speakers, this isn't terribly interesting software, since each keypress gets directly mapped to inserting a single character. If anything, it's a miracle of the simplicity of modern programming that we're able to just slap down a<textarea> on a web page and instantly provide a text input for every internet user around the globe.
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