There is one big group of losers from UTF-8: Eastern Europeans. Greek and Cyrillic need two bytes per letter and there’s no way around it in Unicode, while national code pages only used one byte per letter.

On the other hand, unless you have a big strictly monolingual database (or strictly national language/English), it seems worth taking the hit to size for the flexibility.

On thinking it over, “proper” spelling of foreign words has done its own share of damage to English spelling. We don’t just have to learn our own spelling conventions, we also have to learn foreign ones. Or not (sent to you from Cairo, Illinois, locally pronounced “care-oh”)

It’ll be part of the great English spelling reform. Until then, it’s going to be spelled the way we Romanized Greek in the 16th century.

You’re about twenty centuries too late on the χ thing. You’re gonna need to go back and talk to the Romans.

It’s because -us is the Latin second declension nominative singular, and its nominative plural is -i. People educated enough to know the -us/-i pattern (cactus/cacti, alumnus/alumni, stimulus/stimuli) but unaware that “octopus” is Greek and has an irregular stem are likely to misapply the Latin pattern.

As a manga reader, I disliked the exam arc, but I’ve appreciated what has been built on it and you’ll see that in season 2.

Funny, just a few weeks ago I read a comment elsewhere about how Frieren’s worldbuilding is unrealistic. Like its JRPG ancestor Dragon Quest 3, there’s no obvious source of food to support the walled cities of the Northern Countries. Feeding all the people in Äußerst or Eiseberg would need miles and miles of surrounding farms, not forests. I didn’t mind that on an NES, because a world map at its scale wouldn’t show farms anyway. It’s more of an issue in a manga.

You’ve got it reversed. Nothing whose value increases long-term can be a good replacement for fiat currency, because then anyone with crypto will ask “should I buy this today when I know that everything will cost fewer coins next year?” and at the very best you get Japan’s Lost Decades forever.

That’s not to say that the average shitcoin would work better as a fiat currency than baseball cards, but they might not be doomed at the design stage – although they probably were to bring in the initial base of speculators who now need to find a bigger fool willing to trade something immediately usable for the shitcoin.

I…would probably play Pathfinder with a great roleplaying party.

Pathfinder 2e does have some more tools for roleplaying, but the game’s real strength is tactical combat. Pathfinder 2e wants to be D&D 4e done right.

Zelda 1 randomizer is popular, and it’s all about procedural generation of dungeons and procedural assignment of items to locations. It’s not as well designed as the original Zelda 1, not by a long shot, but it combines the familiar gameplay of Zelda 1 with the novelty of procedural generation.

The previous season covered chapters 1-60, so I’m going to guess that this season will cover chapters 61-119.

I’ve tried those.

Sea of Stars looks as pretty as Chrono Trigger, but its writing is noticeably worse and it completely fails at one of Chrono Trigger’s great strengths, pacing. In Sea of Stars’ defense, it is generally better than Chrono Trigger at interesting dungeon design and its battle system has more potential. But those don’t compensate enough for poor writing and especially pacing.

Chained Echoes tries really hard to fit a 32-bit plot into a 16-bit running time, and it doesn’t quite work. Still, it left me interested in more by the same dev team, especially if trends and tech change so that they can switch to doing a game explicitly inspired by Xenogears and its ilk.

You can take a break and come back later, or study less. The Japanese language isn’t going anywhere.

How is OnlyOffice’s offline performance and support for Graphite smart font technology? I use Graphite fonts and no support for those is a deal-breaker.

Font Awesome is a font that uses codepoints in the “Private Use Area” for icons. (The Private Use Area is a chunk of Unicode specifically set aside for any font to put any image they want in there, instead of expecting a certain codepoint to display as a specific letter.)

To the OP: I don’t know much about this, but if you use a different app, does Arch’s Font Awesome show as the colored or B&W version? You might have to try a wide variety of apps due to competing color font standards.

Mononoke came to mind although there probably is a better one.