Re: Unicode education in UK Schools

2017-07-08 Thread Asmus Freytag via Unicode
On 7/8/2017 12:28 PM, Richard Wordingham via Unicode wrote: On Sat, 8 Jul 2017 09:04:39 -0700 Asmus Freytag via Unicode wrote: But some handling of combining mark (and also the new emoji sequences) would equally constitute

Re: Unicode education in UK Schools

2017-07-08 Thread Richard Wordingham via Unicode
On Sat, 8 Jul 2017 09:04:39 -0700 Asmus Freytag via Unicode wrote: > But some handling > of combining mark (and also the new emoji sequences) would equally > constitute "basic" knowledge, with the Unicode algorithms like > sorting, Which major applications actually use the

Re: Unicode education in UK Schools

2017-07-08 Thread Asmus Freytag via Unicode
On 7/8/2017 3:36 AM, Otto Stolz via Unicode wrote: Übung Unicode Thanks, it's been too long. Anyway, I tried it, and the top search page yielded at least one programming exercise for UTF-8. That's the minimum level of Unicode proficiency that

RE: Tilde (was: Unicode education in UK Schools)

2017-07-08 Thread Jonathan Rosenne via Unicode
Hello, To be precise, this is the COMBINING TILDE not the character TILDE (U+007E). Best Regards, Jonathan Rosenne -Original Message- From: Unicode [mailto:unicode-boun...@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Otto Stolz via Unicode Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2017 1:33 PM To: unicode@unicode.org

Re: Unicode education in UK Schools

2017-07-08 Thread Otto Stolz via Unicode
Hello, am 2017-07-07 um 20:45 Uhr hat Asmus Freytag geschrieben: I also checked whether there are accessible homework assignments that mention Unicode ("Hausaufgabe Unicode"). I didn't go very deep, but it seems that it's not untypical to relegate Unicode to a sidebar, explaining the "\u"

Tilde (was: Unicode education in UK Schools)

2017-07-08 Thread Otto Stolz via Unicode
Hello, am 2017-07-07 um 17:14 Uhr hat William_J_G Overington geschrieben: I found that the character a tilde as I now know it to be called is only used in Portuguese. Just for the record: “Ô is used in Portuguese, Kashubian; “Ñ” is used in Galician, Spanish, Mirandese, Catalan (only for

Re: Unicode education in UK Schools

2017-07-08 Thread Rebecca T via Unicode
> That might be a good thing. Yeah. Very seriously, it’s very important to introduce Unicode early on in CS education, even in a “hey, it’s not OK to exclude people who don’t speak English or people whose names have diacritics from using the programs you create” sort of way. Ignorance and apathy

Re: Unicode education in UK Schools

2017-07-08 Thread Andre Schappo via Unicode
Interesting. Thanks Asmus. So what of other countries? Anyone on this list from China, Japan, Korea, Russia, Thailand ...etc... What is the situation in your countries with respect to Unicode education in your country's Schools, Colleges and Universities? TIA André Schappo > On 7 Jul 2017,