interesting
after banging on about the need to adhere to Unicode annexes, &c, and not withstanding the comment that "the characters in this block are intended for symbols used in mathematical notation", Christiansen uses characters from the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block for visual effect alone still, intentions are one thing, and actual practice another -- like many of us, he probably feels free to ignore a standard's specifications when they feel restrictive I seem to remember Doug Ewell asking for actual examples of the use of Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols being used as intended -- presumably these slides don't count as the first such instance..? all the same, a very interesting presentation . . . /phil chastney ________________________________ From: Karl Williamson <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2011 9:01 PM Subject: Slide show: Survey of current programming language support for Unicode Tom Christiansen recently gave a talk at the OSCON conference concerning the varying levels of support for Unicode in some current programming languages. It is accessible via this link http://training.perl.com/OSCON2011/index.html The talk is entitled "Unicode Support Shootout", and is is one of three talks listed there, the other two being Perl specific. I recommend the html slide show version, from this link, http://98.245.80.27/tcpc/OSCON2011/gbu.html Left-click to advance to the next slide in the sequence.
