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Have you all seen the HUGE unicode poster?
Post #200,931
by
FuManChu
3/28/05 4:33:12 PM
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Have you all seen the HUGE unicode poster?
[link|http://www.ianalbert.com/misc/unichart.php|http://www.ianalbert...misc/unichart.php]
What the heck is text?
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systems
)
- (56)
- March 12, 2005, 11:48:38 AM EST
It depends on the context.
- (
Another Scott
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- (2)
- March 12, 2005, 12:23:39 PM EST
Unicode and ASCII
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StevenYap
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- (1)
- March 12, 2005, 06:54:00 PM EST
Re: Unicode and ASCII - Nitpick II
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jb4
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- March 25, 2005, 01:40:46 PM EST
you are confusing text with display
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boxley
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- (12)
- March 12, 2005, 06:53:13 PM EST
Uhhh..Not quite, Bill
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jb4
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- (11)
- March 25, 2005, 01:50:46 PM EST
And that is one thing that sucks about Unicode
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ben_tilly
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- (9)
- March 25, 2005, 03:09:44 PM EST
At least they're consistent
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jb4
)
- (8)
- March 25, 2005, 06:02:42 PM EST
But it is a problem
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ben_tilly
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- March 25, 2005, 06:13:17 PM EST
Except for that full width/half width ascii thing
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tuberculosis
)
- (5)
- March 27, 2005, 09:40:24 PM EST
I dunno...
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jb4
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- March 28, 2005, 12:11:15 PM EST
My personal take on it
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jake123
)
- (3)
- March 28, 2005, 12:15:20 PM EST
Perhaps, but it makes searching tricky
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tuberculosis
)
- (2)
- March 28, 2005, 02:49:36 PM EST
Well, if it was an easy problem
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jake123
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- March 28, 2005, 03:29:43 PM EST
ICLRPD (new thread)
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jb4
)
- March 29, 2005, 07:57:14 PM EST
Have you all seen the HUGE unicode poster?
- (
FuManChu
)
- March 28, 2005, 04:33:12 PM EST
close enough to debug a table entry :-)
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boxley
)
- March 26, 2005, 09:26:51 AM EST
Text is not as simple as it seems
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ben_tilly
)
- March 12, 2005, 11:00:34 PM EST
This is one thing that Java handles pretty well
- (
bluke
)
- March 13, 2005, 11:35:09 AM EST
Rule #1 - Everything you think you know is wrong
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tuberculosis
)
- (29)
- Aug. 21, 2007, 06:28:08 AM EDT
Why xenophobic?
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drewk
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- (28)
- March 14, 2005, 10:44:16 AM EST
Because they didn't think...
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pwhysall
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- March 14, 2005, 11:24:31 AM EST
Because if they had spent any time at all
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tuberculosis
)
- (25)
- Aug. 21, 2007, 06:30:01 AM EDT
Now how about addressing my example
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drewk
)
- (17)
- March 14, 2005, 12:13:47 PM EST
The best explanation that I've seen of why 2 digits...
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ben_tilly
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- March 14, 2005, 12:46:32 PM EST
No, but they were xenophobic etc
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jake123
)
- (15)
- March 14, 2005, 02:50:01 PM EST
xenophobic's probably the wrong word
- (
SpiceWare
)
- (14)
- March 14, 2005, 04:12:18 PM EST
Yeah, you're right
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jake123
)
- (13)
- March 14, 2005, 05:02:32 PM EST
How about "escessively humble"?
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drewk
)
- (4)
- March 14, 2005, 05:35:25 PM EST
Look, the point about the two digits for a year is well
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jake123
)
- (1)
- March 14, 2005, 06:09:09 PM EST
Disagree
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jb4
)
- March 25, 2005, 02:15:41 PM EST
Maybe...
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tuberculosis
)
- (1)
- Aug. 21, 2007, 06:31:43 AM EDT
How about simply "provincial".
- (
a6l6e6x
)
- March 14, 2005, 08:02:42 PM EST
The people who coded for teletypes and green terminals
- (
Arkadiy
)
- (7)
- March 14, 2005, 05:37:55 PM EST
Yes, a typographer
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jake123
)
- (3)
- March 14, 2005, 06:10:49 PM EST
Internationalization would not have been so easy
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ben_tilly
)
- March 14, 2005, 07:23:05 PM EST
Text layout in 80 by 24 grid of monspaced font?
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Arkadiy
)
- (1)
- March 14, 2005, 07:59:49 PM EST
Phone books back then
- (
jake123
)
- March 15, 2005, 11:18:10 AM EST
Please don't use the letter "e" in your code.
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pwhysall
)
- (2)
- March 14, 2005, 06:20:45 PM EST
I certainly used to do without "e"
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Arkadiy
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- March 14, 2005, 08:01:39 PM EST
I couldn't use "e" either ...
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JimWeirich
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- March 15, 2005, 05:52:09 PM EST
Oh, come ON already
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jb4
)
- (6)
- March 25, 2005, 02:20:51 PM EST
The C++ standard i18n library is awful
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tuberculosis
)
- (5)
- March 27, 2005, 09:56:44 PM EST
Dont know ICU
- (
jb4
)
- (4)
- March 28, 2005, 12:13:20 PM EST
ICLRPD (new thread)
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drewk
)
- March 28, 2005, 12:33:42 PM EST
You can find it here
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tuberculosis
)
- (2)
- March 28, 2005, 02:44:08 PM EST
Time line?
- (
jb4
)
- (1)
- March 29, 2005, 07:59:43 PM EST
Released in 1988
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tuberculosis
)
- March 29, 2005, 08:07:25 PM EST
Actually, Algol 68 was designed from the ground up
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Arkadiy
)
- March 14, 2005, 12:16:18 PM EST
Re: What the heck is text?
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JayMehaffey
)
- (3)
- March 14, 2005, 10:51:50 AM EST
I must correct you - ASCII is a 7-bit encoding
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tuberculosis
)
- Aug. 21, 2007, 06:30:04 AM EDT
Whoa, there.
- (
ubernostrum
)
- (1)
- March 14, 2005, 01:31:43 PM EST
Your right mostly
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JayMehaffey
)
- March 14, 2005, 02:36:05 PM EST
Using a pencil, it's unambiguous.
-NT
- (
mmoffitt
)
- (3)
- March 28, 2005, 01:14:03 PM EST
You haven't seen my handwriting....
-NT
- (
Another Scott
)
- (2)
- March 28, 2005, 02:04:44 PM EST
Uh-oh. I wouldn't confess that ;0)
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mmoffitt
)
- (1)
- March 28, 2005, 02:56:59 PM EST
My father's handwriting was so bad...
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broomberg
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- March 28, 2005, 09:21:00 PM EST
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