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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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: "•
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