Re: Creative people on Twitter

2010-10-14 Thread William_J_G Overington
David Starner prosfil...@gmail.com wrote: Apparently a tweet before that point is a string of 32-bit integers, including all those wonderful characters above U+10. What is the position regarding the 32-bit code point space above U+10 please? Does the Unicode Consortium and/or ISO

Re: Creative people on Twitter

2010-10-14 Thread John H. Jenkins
On Oct 14, 2010, at 4:12 AM, William_J_G Overington wrote: What is the position regarding the 32-bit code point space above U+10 please? Its use is incompatible with Unicode. Fundamentally, it cannot be represented using UTF-16 (without a major rearchitecture), so it doesn't exist.

Re: Creative people on Twitter

2010-10-14 Thread Kenneth Whistler
What is the position regarding the 32-bit code point space above U+10 please? Does the Unicode Consortium and/or ISO or indeed anyone else make any claims upon it? Yes, the claim is that if you use it, you're generating invalid Unicode. Don't do it, don't contemplate it,

Re: Creative people on Twitter

2010-10-13 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le mardi 12 octobre 2010 à 13:29 -0400, David Starner a écrit : On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 7:53 AM, Leonardo Boiko leobo...@gmail.com wrote: I guess it’s only a matter of 퐭퐢퐦퐞 before people start doing things like 햙햍햎햘 (notice this email is plain-text). Not that soon on Twitter, as Twitter

Re: Creative people on Twitter

2010-10-13 Thread Petr Tomasek
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 03:26:23PM +0200, Frédéric Grosshans wrote: Le mardi 12 octobre 2010 à 13:29 -0400, David Starner a écrit : On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 7:53 AM, Leonardo Boiko leobo...@gmail.com wrote: I guess it’s only a matter of 퐭퐢퐦퐞 before people start doing things like 햙햍햎햘

Re: Creative people on Twitter

2010-10-13 Thread David Starner
2010/10/13 Frédéric Grosshans frederic.grossh...@m4x.org: Le mardi 12 octobre 2010 à 13:29 -0400, David Starner a écrit : On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 7:53 AM, Leonardo Boiko leobo...@gmail.com wrote: I guess it’s only a matter of 퐭퐢퐦퐞 before people start doing things like 햙햍햎햘 (notice this email

Creative people on Twitter

2010-10-12 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
Not satisfied with the plain text only option on Twitter, a trend currently seems to be to write love as ℒℴѵℯ (U+2112, U+2134, U+0475, U+212F) to get a sort of handwritten display. Creative, that's for sure. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven asmodai(-at-)in-nomine.org / asmodai イェルーン ラウフロック ヴァン

Re: Creative people on Twitter

2010-10-12 Thread Leonardo Boiko
I guess it’s only a matter of 퐭퐢퐦퐞 before people start doing things like 햙햍햎햘 (notice this email is plain-text). -- Leonardo Boiko

Re: Creative people on Twitter

2010-10-12 Thread David Starner
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 7:53 AM, Leonardo Boiko leobo...@gmail.com wrote: I guess it’s only a matter of 퐭퐢퐦퐞 before people start doing things like 햙햍햎햘 (notice this email is plain-text). Not that soon on Twitter, as Twitter apparently runs a filter and cuts off all characters above U+ a

Re: Creative people on Twitter

2010-10-12 Thread Doug Ewell
Leonardo Boiko leoboiko at gmail dot com wrote: I guess it’s only a matter of 퐭퐢퐦퐞 before people start doing things like 햙햍햎햘 (notice this email is plain-text). I assumed this would become a big fad, back when I wrote my MathText tool to automate the process, but it turns out not to have