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 immediately into the complexities and
weirdnesses, much more so than with other technical topics. This scares
newbies and they walk away thinking every aspect of Unicode is complex
and weird.
For a CS curriculum you really want more than asking students to use
Unicode to spell their name for a modified "Hello World!" program. (For
a German university, this is an interesting assignment as at least half
if not more of the students would be able to complete this assignment
using the ASCII subset.... except for a small minority, the others would
not actually need to use something like the \u syntax, as the local
keyboard would work for their names).
Some of the presentations I found did mention collation and similar
issues (and gave non-Latin examples) but I have not located any homework
assignments that cover any of these issues (and they are not corner
cases, but the ordinary complexity of text data).
A./
