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: "•

Re: Unicode education in UK Schools

otation 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./ > > > On

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

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

Unicode 10 Cover Art

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

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 pl

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

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 In

Re: Emoji anomaly

s/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 Unicode mailto:unicode@unico

ASCII v Unicode

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

Re: ASCII v Unicode

On 3 Nov 2017, at 09:36, Asmus Freytag via Unicode 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 in your page count.

Re: ASCII v Unicode

ed 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 mailto:unicode@unicode.org>>: On 3 Nov 2017, at 09:36, Asmus Freytag via Unicode mail

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) mailto:asm...@ix.netcom.com>> wrote: On 11/3/2017 8:29 AM, Rick McGowan wrote: The 10.0 chart PDF is 2570 pages. On 11/3/2017

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 mailto:unicode@unicode.org>> wrote: Thanks for the feedback. You're correct about this; that is a holdover from an earlier version

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

On 16 Jan 2018, at 08:00, Richard Wordingham via Unicode mailto:unicode@unicode.org>> wrote: On Mon, 15 Jan 2018 20:16:21 -0800 James Kass via Unicode mailto:unicode@unicode.org>> wrote: It will probably be the ASCII apostrophe. The stated intent favors the apostrophe over diacritics or speci

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

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

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

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

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 st

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

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 correct

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

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

Re: Internationalised Computer Science Exercises

<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 couple of weeks ago involves diacritics. Please see jsfiddle.net/co

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: Translating the standard

On 13 Mar 2018, at 02:49, Yifán Wáng via Unicode mailto:unicode@unicode.org>> 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. First, the fact that co

Re: Thoughts on Emoji Selection Process

On 10 Aug 2018, at 21:33, Julian Wels via Unicode mailto:unicode@unicode.org>> wrote: Cultural Iconography Another thing that is is worrisome is the proposed addition of a traditional Indian piece of clothing in 12.0. This is extremely specific to one culture, and I'm not sure if we want to o

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 cha

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) Th

unicode tweet

This tweet made me laugh twitter.com/padolsey/status/1133835770773626881 😀🤯 André Schappo

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

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 previousl