infundibulum

Yes! Yes it will!

At six in the morning you will say “UnicodeEncodeError, why do you treat me thusly?”

And then you will say “Universe, can’t we just go back to the age of ENIAC and tell all those guys ‘PEOPLE, YOUR CHARS MUST HAVE 16 BITS. I KNOW, IT SUCKS, AND IT MEANS YOU’LL ONLY BE ABLE TO STORE 3 OR 4 WORDS IN YOUR ENIACS, BUT BELIEVE ME, IT WILL SAVE YOU A LOT OF UNICODEENCODEERRORS IN THE FUTURE.’?”

Yes, that’s what you’ll ask.

And you will ponder, looking up at the twinkling stars in the sky through your bleary, monitor-begoggled eyes, and you will start seeing constellations spelling out

ユニコードとは何か？

Instead of

ユニコードとは何か？

And then, finally, you look at it again…

ユニコードとは何か？

And you’ll say… Sigh. I guess I’ll just have to get used to reading it that way.