The whole shenanigans behind encrypted shared folder (ESF) goes way back. Personally I would start counting from pre-unicode era, during the period when each developers had whipped up its own solution for the problem. It is a problem that most developers did not truly understand, therefore most of their solutions were either flawed or limited.
Tagged Unicode
Standardize “South Korea” before “Korean”
There is a tidbit racist commentary on the history of unicode, called “Korean mess”. It is completely unrelated to the topic on hand, and frankly I do not wish to comment on the subject as most op-eds I’ve read ended up in a blazing hellfire for most. To give some tastes of what is at hand, there are at least three groups of Korean speakers (North, South, and diaspora), two governments and their regulations, and multiple companies who had stakes on the matter. Unicode headache is mostly for developers, especially the ones who have not worked outside of latin alphabets,…