OT: Haikus for Unicode-Haters

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Unicode is shit!
What a dreadful encoding.
Who thought up this crap?

UTF-16
Has those pesky surrogates
Very bad design.

Arabic shaping
Difficult to implement
It's a complex script.

One should circumvent
Endian related issues.
UTF-8 does.

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