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Nice. I wonder, what's with the parenthesized stuff in "Circled"? Why do the Unicode people think we need individual characters representing "(1)", "1." "(a)",
by ggchappell 16y ago
Nice.
I wonder, what's with the parenthesized stuff in "Circled"? Why do the Unicode people think we need individual characters representing "(1)", "1." "(a)", etc.?
By the way, there is a little bug somewhere. I somehow got it into a mode where it would not show me the characters starting at #100. If I clicked ASCII (to get #0) and moved the X100 slider one step to the right, then I got #9100. But sometimes it works.
- xsmasher 16y agoRe: the circled numbers; They're all the same width. (1) is the same width as (20).
- EdiX 16y agoThe "universal" in unicode went from meaning "you can represent any modern language in it" to "you can translate any encoding in it without loss of information AND any character you could possibily want to have in a font will have it's codepoint". And so now you have precomposed accented characters and combining diacriticals, presentation forms for arabic characters, precomposed ligatures, double width latin characters (that look better with CJK characters), icons for chess pieces, emoticons and control characters (including several different spaces and newline characters). Actually supporting all of unicode is a massive undertaking, and if you start using lesser known features of unicode you will find plenty of bugs everywhere.