On Friday, 27 April 2012 at 06:12:01 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 09:55:54PM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
[...]
Crazy stuff! Some of them look rather similar to Arabic or
Korean's
Hangul (sp?), at least to my untrained eye. And then others
are just
*really* interesting-looking, like:
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/12480.htm
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/ayeri.htm
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/oxidilogi.htm
You're right though, if I were in charge of Unicode and tasked
with
handling some of those, I think I'd just say "Screw it.
Unicode is now
depricated. Use ASCII instead. Doesn't have the characters
for your
langauge? Tough! Fix your language!" :)
You think that's crazy, huh? Check this out:
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/sumerian.htm
Now take a deep breath...
... this writing was *actually used* in ancient times. Yeah.
Which means it probably has a Unicode block assigned to it,
right now.
:-)
It was actually the first human writing ever. Which Phoenician
scribe knew that his innovation of the alphabet would make
programming easier thousands of years later?
