Re: On the lack of a SQUARE TB glyph

> On Sep 27, 1 Reiwa, at 08:17, Julian Bradfield via Unicode > wrote: > > Or one could allow IDS to have leaf components that are any > characters, not just ideographic characters, and then one could have > all sorts of fun. I do like this idea. Note: This is a modified repost as I

Re: On the lack of a SQUARE TB glyph

> Or one could allow IDS to have leaf components that are any > characters, not just ideographic characters, and then one could have > all sorts of fun. I do like that idea André Schappo

unicode tweet

This tweet made me laugh twitter.com/padolsey/status/1133835770773626881 勞 André Schappo

Re: Correct way to express in English that a string is encoded ... using UTF-8 ... with UTF-8 ... in UTF-8?

> On May 15, 31 Heisei, at 12:22 pm, Costello, Roger L. via Unicode > wrote: > > Hello Unicode experts! > > Which is correct: > > (a) The input file contains a string. The string is encoded using UTF-8. > > (b) The input file contains a string. The string is encoded with UTF-8. > > (c)

Re: Encoding italic (was: A last missing link)

> On 16 Jan 2019, at 09:30, James Kass via Unicode wrote: > > > I wrote, > > > The VS possibility would double the character count of any strings > > including them. > > A kind list member has pointed out privately that the above is mistaken. > Twitter character counts aren't actually

Re: Translating the standard

On 13 Mar 2018, at 02:49, Yifán Wáng via Unicode > wrote: Somewhat digressing from the topic, but I'd like to make some comment on this part as I smell a persistent myth among some, hopefully small number of, software engineers in Anglosphere.

Unicode 11.0 and 12.0 Cover Design Art

One of my project students has an art gallery as a client ➜ surfacegallery.org This gallery is also a focal point for a collective of local artists. This morning I had a project meeting with this student. I suggested that surface gallery artists might like to submit

Re: Internationalised Computer Science Exercises

d Wordingham via Unicode < unicode@unicode.org<mailto:unicode@unicode.org>> wrote: On Mon, 22 Jan 2018 at 16:39:57, Andre Schappo via Unicode < unicode@unicode.org<mailto:unicode@unicode.org>> wrote: By way of example, one programming challenge I set to students a cou

Re: 0027, 02BC, 2019, or a new character?

il.com>> wrote: But your outgoing "From" address doesn't seem to have an accent!? On 26-Jan-2018 13:58, "Andre Schappo via Unicode" <unicode@unicode.org<mailto:unicode@unicode.org>> wrote: Talking of typing names correctly. Few people bother to type the

Re: 0027, 02BC, 2019, or a new character?

Talking of typing names correctly. Few people bother to type the acute accent in André. This academic year, for the first time ever, I gave the following challenges to my web programming class of 143 students. I gave these challenges in the first lecture. ① learn how to write my name

Internationalization & Unicode Conference 2018

I am thinking that people at Internationalization & Unicode Conference 2018 may well be interested in my story and, at times difficult, journey. It has been a long journey. Title of my presentation would be "How I Internationalized my Computer Science Teaching". Would any organisation on this

Internationalised Computer Science Exercises

I continue my endeavours to get Unicode and Internationalisation into/onto (I am not sure which is correct) University and School Curricula. Here is another of my endeavours Yesterday, I drafted a final year student project specification for the 2018/2019 academic year. These projects will

Re: 0027, 02BC, 2019, or a new character?

On 18 Jan 2018, at 08:21, Andre Schappo via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org<mailto:unicode@unicode.org>> wrote: On 16 Jan 2018, at 08:00, Richard Wordingham via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org<mailto:unicode@unicode.org>> wrote: On Mon, 15 Jan 2018 20:16:21 -0800 James K

Re: 0027, 02BC, 2019, or a new character?

On 18 Jan 2018, at 08:21, Andre Schappo via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org<mailto:unicode@unicode.org>> wrote: On 16 Jan 2018, at 08:00, Richard Wordingham via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org<mailto:unicode@unicode.org>> wrote: On Mon, 15 Jan 2018 20:16:21 -0800 James K

Re: 0027, 02BC, 2019, or a new character?

On 16 Jan 2018, at 08:00, Richard Wordingham via Unicode > wrote: On Mon, 15 Jan 2018 20:16:21 -0800 James Kass via Unicode > wrote: It will probably be the ASCII apostrophe. The stated intent

Re: Possible bug in formal grammar for extended grapheme cluster

Ah! That explains why pcre2grep -u '^\X{1}$' matches with     ...etc... André Schappo On 17 Dec 2017, at 17:17, Mark Davis ☕️ via Unicode > wrote: Thanks for the feedback. You're correct about this; that is a holdover

Re: ASCII v Unicode

We now have a literal number for ASCII which is 31 pages https://twitter.com/srl295/status/926530928171671552 André Schappo On 3 Nov 2017, at 15:45, Asmus Freytag (c) > wrote: On 11/3/2017 8:29 AM, Rick McGowan wrote: The 10.0 chart PDF is

Re: ASCII v Unicode

de can also be printed onto a single page if you use a very huge paper coupled with smaller font size! ​I think a football field sized paper could possibly do the job? 2017-11-03 19:29 GMT+08:00 Andre Schappo via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org<mailto:unicode@unicode.org>>: On 3 Nov

Re: ASCII v Unicode

On 3 Nov 2017, at 09:36, Asmus Freytag via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org<mailto:unicode@unicode.org>> wrote: On 11/3/2017 2:13 AM, Andre Schappo via Unicode wrote: You may find https://twitter.com/andreschappo/status/926163719331176450 amusing  André Schappo You're wildly off

ASCII v Unicode

You may find https://twitter.com/andreschappo/status/926163719331176450 amusing  André Schappo

Re: Emoji anomaly

From https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/#Emoji_Variation_Selector_Notes, such singleton emoji characters “should have emoji presentation selectors on base characters with Emoji_Presentation=No whenever an emoji presentation is desired” - Peter E On Oct 28, 2017, at 4:11 AM, Andre Schappo via Unico

Emoji anomaly

I am working on a Blog Article ( https://schappo.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/computer-science-internationalization.html ) and do not currently have access to OSX High Sierra, I am using OSX Sierra. I would appreciate some help from someone using OSX High Sierra. Using Sierra's Chinese Simplified

Re: Unicode education in Schools

Because there are many systems that can now handle BMP characters but not cannot handle SMP characters. One example being systems that use mysql utf8 (3 byte encoding) and have not yet updated to utf8mb4 (4 byte encoding) So, I consider it important to familiarise students with SMP characters

Unicode education in Schools

I came across this School Unicode exercise https://community.computingatschool.org.uk/resources/4546 The exercise concerns Emoji but to me the important point is that the schoolchildren are having to think about SMP characters. I do not know if schools gives an explanation of the BMP and SMP

Unicode 10 Cover Art

Unicode 10.0 Cover Design Art Were there entries and, if yes, which won? André Schappo

Re: Should U+3248 ... U+324F be wide characters?

On 18 Aug 2017, at 00:50, Philippe Verdy via Unicode > wrote: 2017-08-17 18:46 GMT+02:00 Asmus Freytag (c) via Unicode >: On 8/17/2017 7:47 AM, Philippe Verdy wrote: 2017-08-17 16:24 GMT+02:00 Mike

Re: Unicode education in UK Schools

gt; notation and mentioning that you get ASCII if you set the upper byte to 0 (in > a UTF-16 string, as supported by Java etc.). > > I've not (yet) located any assignments that try to address any of the > "tricky" issues in the use of Unicode. > > A./ > >

Unicode education in UK Schools

There is some evidence that Unicode is now being introduced to Computer Science pupils in UK Schools. Hove Park School give a summary of their Computer Science curriculum for Years 8 and 9 http://www.hovepark.brighton-hove.sch.uk/department/computer-science From Year 9 curriculum summary: "•

RFCs go Unicode

RFC 7997: The Use of Non-ASCII Characters in RFCs https://tools.ietf.org/pdf/rfc7997.pdf I especially like recommendation to allow person names to be written in their native scripts. The native script form is placed first and thus treated as primary, as it should be IMHO. The romanised/ASCII

Re: "Oh that's what you meant!: reducing emoji misunderstanding"

As Richard Ishida insightfully points out — should Emoji sequences/phrases/sentences adhere to the human language context eg a Japanese Emoji sequence could/should be in Japanese "Subject - Object - Verb" order https://twitter.com/r12a/status/798151134963757056 André Schappo On 18 Nov 2016,

My Annual Unicode Questions

This week is the first week of the new academic year at my university. One of the modules I co-teach is entitled "Programming for the WWW" which encompasses JavaScript and DHTML. This is a first year module. There were approx 70 students in the lab practical this morning. I asked them my annual

Re: Unicode in the Curriculum?

On 4 Jan 2016, at 16:59, Asmus Freytag (t) wrote: > On 1/4/2016 6:44 AM, Elizabeth J. Pyatt wrote: >> Like some others on the list, I believe Unicode should be mentioned at >> different points in a programming curriculum, particularly at the time when >> ASCII would be taught. > ASCII

Re: Unicode in the Curriculum?

ur lecture from me on Unicode will save a student days of self study. Students have a very heavy workload and do not have time for unguided and unstructured self study. All for now André Schappo On 31 Dec 2015, at 18:58, Julian Bradfield wrote: > On 2015-12-31, Andre Schappo <a.scha...@lbo

Unicode in the Curriculum?

A few months ago I asked a class of 140+ first year Computer Science programme and Joint programme students - Who has heard of Unicode? about 20% of the students raised their hands. then I quickly followed it with the question …and who understands Unicode? Every single student whose hand was

Re: Unicode in passwords

On 1 Oct 2015, at 08:33, Richard Wordingham wrote: > > Even ASCII can have problems. A password containing '#' and '|' can't > be entered when a physical US keyboard (102 keys) is interpreted using > a mapping for a British keyboard (103 keys). (There seem to be > different conventions as to

Decomposition/Compatibility Mapping Issue

So ... I was looking at http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/regex.jsp?a=%5Cp%7Bscript%3DHan%7D=? and getting a cool looking Modified Regex Pattern. The last range ??-?? is CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement U+2F800-2FA1D. [?-??-??--??-??-??-??-??-???-----??]

Re: Bogus glyphs for halfwidth characters

Yes. Ditto. Mac OSX 10.10.4 Broken CMAPs? André Schappo On 11 Aug 2015, at 08:35, Mark Davis ☕️ wrote: For halfwidth characters like U+FF70 HALFWIDTH KATAKANA-HIRAGANA PROLONGED SOUND MARK I'm getting bogus glyphs from Kaiti* and Songti* (and STKaiti, STSongti). ​ See screenshot below.

Re: Bogus glyphs for halfwidth characters

The bug is consistent. All the below fonts are by Changzhou SinoType Technology and U+FF70 is at font glyph 147 André Schappo On 11 Aug 2015, at 08:35, Mark Davis ☕️ wrote: For halfwidth characters like U+FF70 HALFWIDTH KATAKANA-HIRAGANA PROLONGED SOUND MARK I'm getting bogus glyphs from

Re: Some questions about Unicode's CJK Unified Ideograph

On 30 May 2015, at 01:20, gfb hjjhjh wrote: 2. Is combined characters like U+20DD intended to work with all different type of characters, or is it some problem related to implementation ? as I when i write ゆ⃝ (Japanese Hiragana Letter Yu + Combining Enclosing Circle) appear to be separate on

Re: Emoji skin tone modifiers on the website of a leading German daily newspaper

2014-11-08 21:14 GMT+01:00 Mark Davis ☕️ m...@macchiato.commailto:m...@macchiato.com: As far as I can tell it is garnering interest all over.. Several German publications, including Spiegel, to French and Italian regional papers, to Indonesian, Vietnamese some chinese emoji skin tone

Re: Noto adds CJK, plus new user-facing website

Looks like you are also working on a color emoji font https://code.google.com/p/noto/source/browse/#git/color_emoji ✔ André On 16 Jul 2014, at 00:33, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: Please excuse the spam, but I think it would be interesting for people here to know that the Noto open source

Re: Swift

?? Sent: Wednesday, June 4, 2014 2:41 AM To: Andre Schappo Cc: unicode@unicode.orgmailto:unicode@unicode.org Subject: Re: Swift Apparently you can use emoji in the identifiers.  (http://www.globalnerdy.com/2014/06/03/swift-fun-fact-1-you-can-use-emoji-characters-in-variable-constant-function

Re: Editing Sinhala and Similar Scripts

WRT Hangul Syllables OSX TextEdit Take a Hangul Syllable such as 반 backspace erases the whole syllable control+backspace erases one jamo at a time from the syllable André Schappo On 19 Mar 2014, at 16:38, Doug Ewell wrote: Andre Schappo A dot Schappo at lboro dot ac dot uk wrote: WRT

Re: Origin of Ellipsis

On 15 Sep 2013, at 22:52, Stephan Stiller wrote: On 9/15/2013 1:04 PM, Doug Ewell wrote: André Schappo wrote: U+2026 is useful for microblogs when one is looking to save characters Not if the microblog is in UTF-8, as almost all are. That's an astute observation, but André was talking

Re: Origin of Ellipsis (was: RE: Empty set)

On 13 Sep 2013, at 20:02, Whistler, Ken wrote: The *interesting* question, in my opinion, is why folks feel impelled to use U+2026 to render a baseline ellipsis in Latin typography at all, rather than just using U+002E ad libitum... --Ken U+2026 is useful for microblogs when one is looking to

Re: emulating keyboards with more keys

I regularly switch soft keyboard layouts and find it does not cause me any inconvenience。Maybe because I am used to it but also it is so easy to do。I regularly switch between US Extended Chinese or US Extended Japanese。I have my OSX system setup with the key combination ctrl+space to toggle

Jamo_Short_Name

Been looking at http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/Jamo.txt There appears to be 2 different romanizations at play in the file? One for the short name and another for the full name eg 1100; G # HANGUL CHOSEONG KIYEOK I have searched unicode.org but cannot find appropriate documentation. Can

Re: Unicode — the movie

Wow! Unicode — The Movie. That will keep me amused for (literally) hours ☺ André On 2012-9-13, at 上午9:15, Johannes Bergerhausen wrote: Dear list, since 2005 we showed a prototype of this film at the end of our talks. Some people suggested to put it online, so we made a new one: it shows

Re: Emoticon seen in the wild!

Not emoticon but ……. I received an email from Email Insider. Email was written as E✉ail ✉ being U+2079 I thought it quite clever André On 2012/07/26, at 9:56, Ian Clifton wrote: I’m sure this is old hat to many, but I’ve just seen my first block 1F600 emoticon used “for real” in an email.

Re: Upside Down Fu character

be included in the UTC's submission to the IRG for Extension F. Work on Extension F will likely start in 2013. Andre Schappo 於 2012年1月13日 上午8:36 寫道： On 12 Jan 2012, at 16:54, John H. Jenkins wrote: Kang-Hao (Kenny) Lu 於 2012年1月12日 上午12:13 寫道： * Three folks think this is rather unnecessary

Re: Upside Down Fu character

On 12 Jan 2012, at 16:54, John H. Jenkins wrote: Kang-Hao (Kenny) Lu 於 2012年1月12日 上午12:13 寫道： * Three folks think this is rather unnecessary (including me). Some people go more and say What about a code point for XXX and YYY? Do they have specific XXXs and YYYs in mind? In general, the

Re: Upside Down Fu character

Thank you all for the feedback WRT UPSIDE-DOWN FU 福 and, after consideration and incorporation of your feedback here is my response. Foremost in my mind is the end user. The end user should be able to easily select and use a stand alone UPSIDE-DOWN FU with a user oriented mechanism such as

Upside Down Fu character

The character 福 means happiness http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php?page=chardictcdcanoce=0cdqchi=福 Unicode entry: U+798F CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-798F It is customary to use an upside-down version of 福 during the Spring Festival http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu_character I am considering