Re: io9 describes Unicode as one of the 10 most unlikely things influenced by J.R.R. Tolkien

2012-12-08 Thread Shriramana Sharma
On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 1:03 AM, Michael Everson ever...@evertype.com wrote: Well, this was as much a surprise to me as it might to some of you, but io9, a blog that covers science, science fiction, and the future, says that Unicode is one of the top ten most unlikely things that were

Re: io9 describes Unicode as one of the 10 most unlikely things influenced by J.R.R. Tolkien

2012-12-08 Thread Mark Davis ☕
Their inference, it appears, is that had I not read Tolkien when I was 13 I would not be who I am today and the content of the Universal Character Set might be a lot different than it is. I doubt it. Many people are far more responsible for the structure, model, properties, and characters of

Re: io9 describes Unicode as one of the 10 most unlikely things influenced by J.R.R. Tolkien

2012-12-08 Thread Michael Everson
On 9 Dec 2012, at 00:17, Mark Davis ☕ m...@macchiato.com wrote: Their inference, it appears, is that had I not read Tolkien when I was 13 I would not be who I am today and the content of the Universal Character Set might be a lot different than it is. I doubt it. Really? Well, perhaps

io9 describes Unicode as one of the 10 most unlikely things influenced by J.R.R. Tolkien

2012-12-07 Thread Michael Everson
Well, this was as much a surprise to me as it might to some of you, but io9, a blog that covers science, science fiction, and the future, says that Unicode is one of the top ten most unlikely things that were influenced by Tolkien -- because they'd heard Jackie Kashian's Dork Forest interview

Re: io9 describes Unicode as one of the 10 most unlikely things influenced by J.R.R. Tolkien

2012-12-07 Thread Michael Everson
On 7 Dec 2012, at 19:52, Ken Lunde lu...@adobe.com wrote: Very nice, Michael. Thank you for sharing. You're very welcome. I hope you enjoy the Dork Forest interview. As Jackie says (in the bonus piece), I own my own dorkdom. BTW, did you send this from a mobile device while in line to be