On Sun, 30 Aug 2009 03:07:17 +, Neil Hodgson wrote:
>Not sure if you are referring to the ☃ snowman character or Arctic
> region languages like Canadian Aboriginal syllabic writing like ᐲᐦᒑᔨᕽ
> which were added to Unicode 8 years after the initial version. I'd guess
> that was added from p
On 08/30/2009 04:16 AM, r wrote:
I was reading the thread here...
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/db90a9629b92aab0/b0385050b4c6c84e?hl=en&lnk=raot#b0385050b4c6c84e
...
...
It's called evolution people! Ever heard of science? So ditch the
useless Unicode and sa
r wrote:
natural languages and Unicode. Which IMO * Unicode* is simply a monkey
patch for this soup of multiple languages we have to deal with in
programming and communication.
A somewhat fair charactierization.
[snip]
everyone happy? A sort of Utopian free-language-love-fest-kinda-
thing?
r wrote:
I was reading the thread here...
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/db90a9629b92aab0/b0385050b4c6c84e?hl=en&lnk=raot#b0385050b4c6c84e
and it raised some fundamental philophosical questions
Rant ignored.
Actually, Python 3.x seems finally to ha
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 11:07:17PM EDT, Neil Hodgson wrote:
> Benjamin Peterson:
> > Like Sanskrit or Snowman language?
> Sanskrit is mostly written in Devanagari these days which is also
> useful for selling things to people who speak Hindi and other Indian
> languages.
Is the implication that
r wrote:
> Of the many
> things that divide us such as race, color, religion, geography, blah,
> the most perplexing and devastating seems to be why have we not
> accepted a single global language for all to speak.
I agree 1000% and obviously we should make Klingon that global language. Or
possib
Benjamin Peterson:
> Like Sanskrit or Snowman language?
Sanskrit is mostly written in Devanagari these days which is also
useful for selling things to people who speak Hindi and other Indian
languages.
Not sure if you are referring to the ☃ snowman character or Arctic
region languages like
Neil Hodgson gmail.com> writes:
\\
>
> Unicode was
> developed by corporations from the US left coast in order to sell their
> products in foreign markets at minimal cost.
Like Sanskrit or Snowman language?
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On Aug 29, 7:20 pm, John Machin wrote:
> On Aug 30, 8:46 am, r wrote:
> The Chinese language is more widely spoken than English, is quite
> capable of expression in ASCII ("r tongzhi shi sha gua") and doesn't
> have those pesky it's/its problems.
Oh yes of course it is the most widely spoken amo
r:
> Unicode (*puke*) seems nothing more than a brain fart of morons. And
> sadly it was created by CS majors who i assumed used logic and
> deductive reasoning but i must be wrong. Why should the larger world
> keep supporting such antiquated languages and character sets through
> Unicode? What p
On Aug 30, 8:46 am, r wrote:
>
> Take for instance the Chinese language with it's thousands of
> characters and BS, it's more of an art than a language. Why do we
> need such complicated languages in this day and time. Many languages
> have been perfected, (although not perfect) far beyond that o
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 07:12:26PM EDT, Stephen Hansen wrote:
> >
> > Unicode (*puke*) seems nothing more than a brain fart of morons. And
> > sadly it was created by CS majors who i assumed used logic and
> > deductive reasoning but i must be wrong. Why should the larger world
> > keep supporting
>
> Unicode (*puke*) seems nothing more than a brain fart of morons. And
> sadly it was created by CS majors who i assumed used logic and
> deductive reasoning but i must be wrong. Why should the larger world
> keep supporting such antiquated languages and character sets through
> Unicode? What pur
I was reading the thread here...
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/db90a9629b92aab0/b0385050b4c6c84e?hl=en&lnk=raot#b0385050b4c6c84e
and it raised some fundamental philophosical questions to me about
natural languages and Unicode. Which IMO * Unicode* is simply a
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