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Alphabets are just symbols that have some sort of meaning to you. Alphabets in a row are text. There are symbols that have no meaning to you but still are te xt
by Tsukiko 12y ago
Alphabets are just symbols that have some sort of meaning to you. Alphabets in a row are text.
There are symbols that have no meaning to you but still are te xt such as Kanji or Korean alphabet for some people yet you consider them text.
Unicode has nothing to do with what is considered text. Humans have for millenia used pictures as symbols that are used for text, in egypt for example.
- bluerobotcat 12y agoNote that Unicode includes hieroglyphs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_hieroglyphs#Unicode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_hieroglyphs#Unicode
- edmoffo 12y agoNot just hieroglyphs... Unicode includes anything you can imagine
- bluerobotcat 12y agoIt includes many things, but not, for example, an 'i' dotted with a heart. And to represent mathematics well you need to use MathML.
- Someone 12y agoThere was a request for it: http://www.evertype.com/standards/iso10646/pdf/n258a-heartdot.pdf http://www.evertype.com/standards/iso10646/pdf/n258a-heartdo... (but do note the date)
- Tsukiko 12y agoWhat unicode does or does not include doesn't matter.
- bluerobotcat 12y agoI just wanted to clarify this because I got the impression you were implying they weren't.
- bluerobotcat 12y agoWould you consider integrals, powers, and fractions text? For readability, the usual notation uses two dimensions. They can be written in one dimension of course, but so can anything that would count as language (given that all information can be written as a row of 0s and 1s).