Thanks, Rex, i am just getting to all that unicode business. You are dong much better than the website Marta
On Dec 5, 2005, at 12:56, Rex Baldazo wrote: > Unicode is an encoding that allows all characters from all languages to > be identified uniquely: > > http://www.unicode.org/standard/WhatIsUnicode.html > > Remember that to a computer, these letters you're seeing are > represented > internally as just numbers. In the bad old days, what would happen is > that different encodings might use the same number to represent > different characters. So you might have the number 27 representing one > character in the English alphabet while representing some other number > in, say, the Cyrillic alphabet. > > Unicode does away with all that--every character in every language has > a > distinct and unique encoding. The number 27 represents one and only > one > character in the Unicode world. > > The one (minor) drawback is of course that you need a lot of bits to > represent all those characters--Unicode requires up to 32 bits for each > character. > > --- Rex. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > [mailto:owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu] On Behalf Of Anne > Cartwright > Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 12:41 PM > To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Subject: Re: MacGroup: Diacritic marks > > I have been waiting to see if Marta would ask, but she probably knows > so > I will ask. What is Unicode? In the increasingly complicated world of > computers, "one code" sounds like a good idea. But I'm sure it's not > simple. > > Anne > > Lee Larson wrote: > >> On Dec 5, 2005, at 12:18 AM, Anne Cartwright reported: >> >>> It doesn't seem to work in AppleWorks, and the macrons came through >>> the mail after the vowels, but at least I know what it's called. >> >> >> I kind of expected it to fail in Appleworks. One of the reasons Apple >> is letting the program die is the lack of Unicode support. I am >> surprised Thunderbird is not Unicode-aware. > > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be January > 24 > > | at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. > | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be January 24 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. > | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 24 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
