Re: Unicode education in UK Schools

2017-07-15 Thread Marcel Schneider via Unicode
On Sat, 15 Jul 2017 22:30:03 +0200, Philippe Verdy wrote: > > As well the feminine form of the common adjective "ambigu" has been > "regularized" to place the diaeresis ("tréma" in French) on the pronounced u > rather than an on the mute e added for the regular feminine "ambigüe": it > also

Re: Unicode education in UK Schools

2017-07-15 Thread Philippe Verdy via Unicode
As well the feminine form of the common adjective "ambigu" has been "regularized" to place the diaeresis ("tréma" in French) on the pronounced u rather than an on the mute e added for the regular feminine "ambigüe": it also correctly forces the pronunciation of this u, which would otherwise be

Re: Unicode education in UK Schools

2017-07-14 Thread Marcel Schneider via Unicode
On Fri, 7 Jul 2017 16:14:04 +0100 (BST), William_J_G Overington via Unicode wrote: > […] > > For example, it mentioned the u diaeresis used in French, though I learned > later that words that have a u diaeresis in French are rather rare. > Today, words containing 'u diaeresis' have become

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
Subject: Tilde (was: Unicode education in UK Schools) 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, Kas

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,

Re: Unicode education in UK Schools

2017-07-07 Thread Asmus Freytag via Unicode
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

Re: Unicode education in UK Schools

2017-07-07 Thread Doug Ewell via Unicode
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

Re: Unicode education in UK Schools

2017-07-07 Thread Asmus Freytag via Unicode
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

Re: Unicode education in UK Schools

2017-07-07 Thread William_J_G Overington via Unicode
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

Unicode education in UK Schools

2017-07-07 Thread Andre Schappo via Unicode
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: "•