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Unicode's transliteration rules are Turing-complete

Hacker News Top · 2026-07-08 Cached

Unicode's transliteration rules (UTS #35) are proven to be Turing-complete by compiling 2-tag systems, showing termination is undecidable. This result affects the ICU library used in many systems.

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