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> So which is it? Does each code point represent a visual image? Look it's pretty simple, every code point represents a semantic meaning, except for: 1. those
by EdiX 10y ago
> So which is it? Does each code point represent a visual image?
Look it's pretty simple, every code point represents a semantic meaning, except for:
1. those characters who also encode the width of their visual image (U+FF00..FFEF)
2. the one that means 'unknown' (U+FFFD)
3. those characters that change their visual representation depending on their position in the word (U+FB50..U+FDFF,U+FE70..U+FEFF)
4. those that change the visual image of another code point (U+FE00..U+FE0F)
5. those characters that have a visual image as their semantic meaning (too many to list)
6. those that are designated to have no semantic meaning at all (U+FDD0..U+FDEF)
7. those that have a meaning only in pairs (U+D800..U+DFFF)
8. miscellaneous
- tragomaskhalos 10y agoWhy does this list remind me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_Emporium_of_Benevolent_Knowledge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_Emporium_of_Benevole... ? :)
- EdiX 10y agoBecause Unicode is the Celestial Consortium of Benevolent Encoding.
- PeterisP 10y agoWhy would #1 #3 #4 and #5 not apply? "every code point represents a semantic meaning" is completely consistent with the notion that some code points e.g. have differing visual representation depending on their position in the word.