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this isn't esoteric at all. We are discriminating against Korea when we do not accommodate their alphabet. China and Japan obviously have to accommodate thems

this isn't esoteric at all. We are discriminating against Korea when we do not accommodate their alphabet. China and Japan obviously have to accommodate themselves as there is no possibility of having one key for each Kanji (or Chinese character). There was a nice documentary showing arcane Chinese characters or different descendants of the same Chinese characters. Does this encode the font or merely the character (as an entity)?

lifthrasiir 10y ago
As mentioned in sibling threads, it is esoteric in terms of programming languages. It's in the same page as Brainfuck and Befunge and the name "esoteric programming language" is well-established [1]. [1] https://esolangs.org/wiki/Main_Page https://esolangs.org/wiki/Main_Page
lacampbell 10y ago
Huh? It's very easy to input Han Characters on modern systems. Most people type it a phonetic alphabet (eg, romanizations like Hanyu Pinyin, or indigenous phonetic alphabets like Zhuyin) and a little program pops up, giving you a list of matching characters, and you select them. Googles ones are very good (they even know regional varions in mandarin pronunciation). It's entirely conceivable for a programming language to be made with Han Characters - because it's a solved problem to input Han Characters on keyboards. Or Have I missed the point of what you wrote entirely?
- asaibx 10y ago
  > It's entirely conceivable for a programming language to be made with Han Characters Not only is it conceivable, it has already been done: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_programming_languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_programming_la...
PeCaN 10y ago
I'd appreciate if you didn't start getting offended for other people when you clearly didn't read about the language (it's obviously esoteric¹), and also imply that somehow China, Taiwan, and Japan haven't figured out how to use their languages on computers. Also, what does this sentence even mean? > Does this encode the font or merely the character (as an entity)? 1. Unless you happen to regularly use a grid-based Brainfuck.

lifthrasiir 10y ago

As mentioned in sibling threads, it is esoteric in terms of programming languages. It's in the same page as Brainfuck and Befunge and the name "esoteric programming language" is well-established [1]. [1] https://esolangs.org/wiki/Main_Page https://esolangs.org/wiki/Main_Page

lacampbell 10y ago

Huh? It's very easy to input Han Characters on modern systems. Most people type it a phonetic alphabet (eg, romanizations like Hanyu Pinyin, or indigenous phonetic alphabets like Zhuyin) and a little program pops up, giving you a list of matching characters, and you select them. Googles ones are very good (they even know regional varions in mandarin pronunciation). It's entirely conceivable for a programming language to be made with Han Characters - because it's a solved problem to input Han Characters on keyboards. Or Have I missed the point of what you wrote entirely?

asaibx 10y ago
> It's entirely conceivable for a programming language to be made with Han Characters Not only is it conceivable, it has already been done: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_programming_languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_programming_la...

PeCaN 10y ago

I'd appreciate if you didn't start getting offended for other people when you clearly didn't read about the language (it's obviously esoteric¹), and also imply that somehow China, Taiwan, and Japan haven't figured out how to use their languages on computers. Also, what does this sentence even mean? > Does this encode the font or merely the character (as an entity)? 1. Unless you happen to regularly use a grid-based Brainfuck.