"H. S. Teoh" <hst...@quickfur.ath.cx> wrote in message news:mailman.2182.1335490591.4860.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... > > Now in that, at least, it surpasses Norton Editor. :-) But had Norton > not been bought over by Symantec, we'd have a modern, much more powerful > version of NE today. But, oh well. Things have moved on. Vim beats the > crap out of NE, Notepad, and just about any GUI editor out there. It > also beats the snot out of emacs, but I don't want to start *that* > flamewar. :-P >
"We didn't start that flamewar, It was always burning, Since the world's been turning..." > > Here's more: > > http://www.omniglot.com/writing/conscripts2.htm > > Imagine if some of the more complicated scripts there were actually used > in a real language, and Unicode had to support it... Like this one: > > http://www.omniglot.com/writing/talisman.htm > > Or, if you *really* wanna go all-out: > > http://www.omniglot.com/writing/ssioweluwur.php > > (Check out the sample text near the bottom of the page and gape in > awe at what creative minds let loose can produce... and horror at the > prospect of Unicode being required to support it.) > Crazy stuff! Some of them look rather similar to Arabic or Korean's Hangul (sp?), at least to my untrained eye. And then others are just *really* interesting-looking, like: http://www.omniglot.com/writing/12480.htm http://www.omniglot.com/writing/ayeri.htm http://www.omniglot.com/writing/oxidilogi.htm You're right though, if I were in charge of Unicode and tasked with handling some of those, I think I'd just say "Screw it. Unicode is now depricated. Use ASCII instead. Doesn't have the characters for your langauge? Tough! Fix your language!" :) > > When I get the time? Hah... I really need to get my lazy bum back to > working on the new AA implementation first. I think that would > contribute greater value than optimizing Unicode algorithms. :-) I was > hoping *somebody* would be inspired by my idea and run with it... > Heh, yea. It is a tempting project, but my plate's overflowing too. (Now if only I could make the same happen to bank account...!)