Re: The management of the encoding process of emoji

An issue that seems to be coming into prominence is that as a result of the requirement that emoji proposals should not be overly specific, some recent proposals seem to be trying to emphasise that they are not overly specific by suggesting that the particular emoji proposed could mean various

Re: Unicode education in the professional world

2017-07-07 19:02 GMT+02:00 Doug Ewell via Unicode : > Oracle FAQ: > While UTF8 uses only 2 bytes to store data AL32UTF8 uses 2 or 4 bytes. > > Unicode and UTF-8 have been around a long time by now. The fact that > there is still fake news like this out there, steering our

Re: Unicode education in UK Schools

I performed a quick search "Informatik und Unicode" to see whether I could find documents from German academic institutions discussing Unicode in the context of computer science (Informatik). Among the first page of search results I found a number of summaries and presentations that may have

Unicode education in the professional world

Sort of along the lines of "education"... I've been helping a colleague who is using the Oracle database and trying to work through a customer's character conversion and mojibake issues. I started suspecting the NLS_LANG variable and looked up some references, and found the following alternative

Re: Unicode education in UK Schools

On 7/7/2017 12:55 PM, Doug Ewell via Unicode wrote: Asmus Freytag wrote: I've not (yet) located any assignments that try to address any of the "tricky" issues in the use of Unicode. That might be a good thing. Many introductory lessons or chapters or talks about Unicode dive almost

Re: Unicode education in UK Schools

Asmus Freytag wrote: > I've not (yet) located any assignments that try to address any of the > "tricky" issues in the use of Unicode. That might be a good thing. Many introductory lessons or chapters or talks about Unicode dive almost immediately into the complexities and weirdnesses, much more

Unicode education in UK Schools

There is some evidence that Unicode is now being introduced to Computer Science pupils in UK Schools. Hove Park School give a summary of their Computer Science curriculum for Years 8 and 9 http://www.hovepark.brighton-hove.sch.uk/department/computer-science From Year 9 curriculum summary: "•

Re: Unicode education in UK Schools

Around 1991 I was shopping in a supermarket and I noticed some product that I was buying had its ingredients list in a lot of languages. I have been interested in typography and languages since the 1960s. During the 1960s I was given a copy of the Riscatype Accents Catalogue. A page of