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> People’s names are all mapped in Unicode code points How is this not true? Edit: it's a joke lol, as I get farther in the list
by Exuma 7y ago
> People’s names are all mapped in Unicode code points
How is this not true?
Edit: it's a joke lol, as I get farther in the list
- jrimbault 7y agohttps://stackoverflow.com/questions/36742226/example-of-a-name-that-is-not-mapped-in-unicode-code-points https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36742226/example-of-a-na... As far as I can tell, all of those are not jokes.
- vharuck 7y agoCorrect me if I'm wrong, but the Kanji example in the accepted answer isn't an alternate so much as a "cursive" form. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursive_script_(East_Asia) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursive_script_(East_Asia)
- oftenwrong 7y agoFor example: names in languages that have no written form.
- Jasper_ 7y agoChina has a long tradition of naming people with rare symbols that might not be in Unicode, and it's causing real grief for some [0]. [0] https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/world/asia/21china.html https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/world...
- pteraspidomorph 7y agoI'm not sure it's reasonable to expect support for characters not in unicode. It would be more reasonable to get the character mapped.
- Jasper_ 7y agoI mean, it worked for 3000 years without support for those characters in Unicode.
- Piskvorrr 7y agoMany of the counterexamples show up as "???????" seen from here - perhaps a related assumption is "Unicode is always available at its latest version everywhere."
- 0xcde4c3db 7y agohttps://modelviewculture.com/pieces/i-can-text-you-a-pile-of-poo-but-i-cant-write-my-name https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/i-can-text-you-a-pile-of...