Intended just as friendly fuel for this cheery and interesting fire:
Well, English has become 'Chinese-like' (i.e. more like
isolating languages and less like inflecting languages)
recently(?) with less and less inflection.
I'm not an expert, but I don't think that's
It (english) seems to me like a kind of ultimate, permanent creole,
Sorry to reply to my own message but this reminds of another question:
have there been any attempts (apart from taggers and one art project
that I know of) to design/propogate ideograph-based writing systems
for english?
I think I'd like bijective too, if I knew what it meant. Someone?
It would be a lot more fun to answer this question in plain-text
Unicode (using math notation) than in ASCII.
Informally:
"Bijective" describes a mapping between two sets. Every element of
the source set ("the
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"Unicode is a character set encoding standard which currently provides for
its entire character repertoire to be represented using 8-bit, 16-bit or
32-bit encodings."
Please say "encoding forms".
There are three distinct terms, that sound similar, and
What exactly _would_ be wrong with calling UNICODE a
thirty-two bit encoding
If I have a 32 bit integer type, holding a Unicode code point, I have
11 bits left over to hold other data. That's worth knowing.
Btw, saying approximately 20.087 bits (Am I calculating that
We've seen several posts about the perception that Unicode is a
16 bit character set encoding. Among those, we've heard anecdotes
about the problems people have introducing newcomers to Unicode.
Here is a chapter of a reference manual I've been working on.
The original manual can be found at
Because of the widespread belief that Unicode stops at U+,
many fonts and applications that claim to support Unicode can
only handle basic characters, not supplementary characters.
Right. (Is it really a widespread belief? That's something I've
been wondering.)
So
It has proven difficult to come up with convenient terms for
the Unicode characters encoded at U+1 and beyond.
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2. A 'basic' code point, which may represent a 'basic
character', can range from U+ through U+.
For what purpose is such a
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We are distributing an open source C library that contains a
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