On 12/2/19 7:01 AM, Costello, Roger L. via Unicode wrote:
>From the book titled "Computer Power and Human Reason" by Joseph Weizenbaum,
p.74-75
It's a reasonably good explanation of binary numbers and "encoding" in a
more usual sense than we use it here in Unicode-land. Actually makes
for
On 2019-12-03 12:59 AM, Richard Wordingham via Unicode wrote:
On Mon, 2 Dec 2019 12:01:52 +
"Costello, Roger L. via Unicode" wrote:
From the book titled "Computer Power and Human Reason" by Joseph
Weizenbaum, p.74-75
Suppose that the alphabet with which we wish to concern ourselves
On Mon, 2 Dec 2019 12:01:52 +
"Costello, Roger L. via Unicode" wrote:
> From the book titled "Computer Power and Human Reason" by Joseph
> Weizenbaum, p.74-75
>
> Suppose that the alphabet with which we wish to concern ourselves
> consists of 256 distinct symbols...
Why should I wish to
Indeed.
Unicode separates: (1) selecting a character repertoire; (2) assigning each
character a numerical character code; (3) choosing an encoding form to
represent those character codes as code units (made up of bytes).
(2) and (3) are not conflated.
James
On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 9:54 AM 梁海
Grrr… It’s an okayish analog for binary numbers, but not really relevant to
character encoding. Encoded characters are just assigned with integers, which
could in turn be represented in any base.
The binary nature of computers’ way of storing numbers does not have much to do
with how character
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