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I don't understand why these are part of Unicode. Were they ever used as part of text? Why Pac-man but no Donkey Kong? What is the logical basis for this set?
by saurik 2y ago
I don't understand why these are part of Unicode. Were they ever used as part of text? Why Pac-man but no Donkey Kong? What is the logical basis for this set?
- quink 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbols_for_Legacy_Computing#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbols_for_Legacy_Computing#H... Specifically https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2019/19025-terminals-prop.pdf https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2019/19025-terminals-prop.pdf covering, among others, all the teletext characters.
- saurik 2y agoLet me be more specific: I don't understand why pac-man and fragments of chess pieces and race cars or alienate--essentially all of these sections of "game sprites", which is what jumped out at me as they dominate the first page of this proposal--are being included in Unicode. I do understand why the various block drawing characters used in teletext schemes should be included.
- lifthrasiir 2y agoBecause they provide a round-trip compatibility with those character sets, which have been one of the defining goals of Unicode from the very beginning. The same reason that various ornaments and dingbats and even emojis did end up in the Unicode.