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Author of libgrapheme here: Both collation and normalisation are non-trivial and have many gotchas thanks to the way the Unicode consortium likes to write their specifications. I sometimes get the feeling that they don't even care about implementers and just document what is done in the reference implementation ICU.

The only sensible normalisation one can implement is the full decomposition (NFD), and maybe the full composition (NFC). You rely on the full decomposition if you want to collate correctly, which is a problem because the amount of memory needed to store the decomposition is unbounded in general. I don't want to make the libgrapheme users jump through hoops, and I also don't want to do any memory allocations in libgrapheme either.

There is an idea floating in my head on how to solve this, but I'm currently busy finalising Unicode 15.1 support (Unicode 16.0, released on the 10th, will be trivial to upgrade to) and releasing my already fully-compliant implementation of the Unicode bidirectional algorithm.

Thanks for your work on packaging my library. Please let me know if I can make the process simpler for you; I take great care to make packaging as simple as possible for the packagers. Likewise I have no sympathy for those writing software that is almost deliberately hard to package.

Thanks for recommending libgrapheme. I am honoured, being the author of this library.

Thank you! I'm using just an editor and the terminal, nothing fancy. :)

Look at sndio if you want to see how sound should be done. Excusing the horrible mess pulseaudio is with the horrible state of Linux Audio doesn't cut it, when OpenBSD has been offering a superior and simpler alternative for years!

It doesn't reinvent the wheel and for anything more complex you can always use JACK, like if you really want to go low-latency.

When I saw the new Ghostbusters trailer in the cinema (yes, I still go there), I thought it was a parody film. I'm not kidding.

Nowadays, people always try to find ways to be offended. A women-led movie got bad ratings? It must be the patriarchy! Nobody wonders if it might have been just a bad movie, as I, as a man, also enjoy women-led movies (I mean movies in the cinemas, not what you think :P). Hoewever, the new Ghostbusters just looks like a big horrible painful joke, and that's why the ratings tanked.

Given it's so hard to even assess statistically, how many men are among movie raters, this entire article stands on weak feet.

Yeah, I agree. Though, Vulkan is meant to be low-level, kind of like an ASM for Graphics Cards. The euphemism of the article's title is too much though imho.

"simple"

So can one assess this is a racial problem after all?

For years, liberals tell us the high poverty of negroes and hispanics was due to lack of education. If it's not education, what is it then? And why are Asian-Americans not facing the same issues?

I suspect it's a racial identity issue. The best way to understand this point is looking at the mainstream media and how the different races are portraied. Only an idiot would ignore this influence on people, especially because the USA are by far the biggest TV consumers.

If you start judging me for asking these questions or downvote me without giving a reason, you should be ashamed of yourself. Reasons for downvoting are welcome though, so keep them coming! :)