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I don't see at all how not being able to type certain non alphabetical symbols means it isn't good for English. Half you quoted are general math symbols that ha
by oh_sigh 6y ago
I don't see at all how not being able to type certain non alphabetical symbols means it isn't good for English. Half you quoted are general math symbols that have nothing to do with English.
- knolax 6y agoI want you to explain to your grandmother why the software you wrote can handle dollar signs but not cent signs.
- oh_sigh 6y agoFIELDATA didn't support the cent sign either, which my grandmother is much more familiar with, so I think it would not be hard for her to grasp this concept.
- dragonwriter 6y ago> I don't see at all how not being able to type certain non alphabetical symbols means it isn't good for English. It means that because the English language uses punctuation and other non-alphabetic symbols, not just letters of the alphabet, as an examination of any substantial corpus of written material in the language not solely consisting of material where the writer was constrained by ASCII (and, heck, even those where they were, though the set of non-alphabetic symbols used would be narrower) would instantly reveal. > Half you quoted are general math symbols that have nothing to do with English. 5 (7 if you mistakenly include angle brackets, which do have textual, non-mathematical uses) out of 15 is not half, but mathematical symbols are used in written English.
- oh_sigh 6y agoThis is like saying that a python interpreter isn't good for interpreting python, because frequently python programs might be invoked using a bash script, and so python is incomplete without bash. If my weird squiggley that I use in my specific niche field isn't represented by any Unicode code point, does that mean that Unicode isn't good for representing English?