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 influenced by > Tolkien -- because they'd heard Jackie Kashian's Dork Forest interview with > me made in September of this year, and think that I've had a lot of influence > on Unicode! > > I couldn't be more proud. 😊
Well nice to hear, and of course you have contributed a lot to Unicode! But I fail to see the logical connection between Unicode as a technical standard and Tolkien! I hadn't heard about this website, but if they purport to write on science, but make such illogical deductions, I am not sure I'll be reading it much in future. -- Shriramana Sharma
