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Once people stop needing and/or inventing new characters and scripts.
by tambre 7y ago
Once people stop needing and/or inventing new characters and scripts.
- magicalhippo 7y agoAnd emojis, don't forget about the all-important emojis.
- samastur 7y agoYou are probably joking, but I am seriously annoyed there's no donkey emoji.
- rbonvall 7y agoMy wife and I call each other "donkey", and some years ago we used the horse emoji, which was low resolution enough to look as a donkey if you squinted. But modern emojis are too high resolution and it definitely looks like a horse now. So I feel your pain.
- JdeBP 7y agoIs U+130D8 not good enough for you?
- mrspuratic 7y agoIf there's room in Unicode to describe "ARABIC LETTER BEH WITH THREE DOTS POINTING UPWARDS BELOW AND TWO DOTS ABOVE" there's room for "DONKEY". I wonder why Gardiner's descriptions never made it into Unicode? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Egyptian_hieroglyphs#E https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Egyptian_hieroglyphs#E O, wait, there are censored genitalia in D block ...
- samastur 7y agoThanks, I wasn't aware of it. Sadly I get square when I try to use it so less reliable than emoji.
- mrspuratic 7y agoI wanted a pink pony. My wifi SSID is <horse U+1F40E><unicorn U+1F984>, which is a barely satisfactory approximation. (FWIW the FTP site is still up: ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/13.0.0/ )
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y agoEmoji: It's like Kanji, only without agreed upon semantic meaning or pronunciation. I pity historians of the future who have to try and decipher this garbage.
- tialaramex 7y agoHa, imagine if some idiots designed a whole country so that its correct functioning depended upon trying to decipher the meaning of symbols which lack semantic meaning decades or even centuries later. Oh wait, that's the United States of America. What does constitute a "well regulated militia" and how exactly did those symbols come to mean people you wouldn't trust with a sharp stick are allowed semi-automatic hand guns? Symbols mean whatever people want them to mean, that's the extent to which Humpty is right when he lectures Alice. Whether it's an Eggplant emoji or "Ugandan discussions" the symbol is not the meaning of the symbol.
- rbanffy 7y ago"214 graphic characters that provide compatibility with various home computers from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s and with early teletext broadcasting standards" This part is dear to me, as I helped craft it. It includes 2x3 videotext mosaic characters that will make it much easier to draw large text have have better quality charts in text terminal interfaces. And, of course, the ability to properly encode documents that were generated in computers in the 70's and 80's that contained those platform-specific characters. For 14 we are planning on adding symbols from the Sharp MZ series and the large text characters (3x3 cells) of HP terminals.
- bhaak 7y agoThe niche audience of terminal based games will also be thankful forever to you and the rest of the people that got those characters into Unicode.
- rbanffy 7y agoGo get them. https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1FB00.pdf https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1FB00.pdf
- phaker 7y agoDown for me as is everything else. Found a unicode consortium tweet (!) with a picture of the whole block: https://twitter.com/unicode/status/1085613123183071232?lang=en https://twitter.com/unicode/status/1085613123183071232?lang=...
- JdeBP 7y agoThey might be interested in Unscii, too. It has been updated in light of Unicode 13. * http://pelulamu.net/unscii/ http://pelulamu.net/unscii/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18478350 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18478350)
- pmarreck 7y agoDo these... do these include the old Commodore 64 metacharacters/symbols??
- pilif 7y agoeither that or when there are 2^24 used codepoints.
- klodolph 7y agoThe available space is closer to 2^20 (0-10FFFF, minus surrogate pairs, depending on whether you are talking about Unicode scalar values or code points).
- Someone 7y agoThere’s also Emoji modifiers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miscellaneous_Symbols_and_Pictographs#Emoji_modifiers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miscellaneous_Symbols_and_Pict...) and regional indicators https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_Indicator_Symbol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_Indicator_Symbol that complicate determining the number of Unicode characters.