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Announcing The Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0:
Version 13.0 of the Unicode Standard is now available, including the core specification, annexes, and data files. This version adds 5,390 characters, for a total of 143,859 characters. These additions include four new scripts, for a total of 154 scripts, as well as 55 new emoji characters.
The new scripts and characters in Version 13.0 add support for modern language groups in Africa, Pakistan, South Asia, and China:
[...] Support for scholarly work was extended worldwide, including:
[...] Popular symbol additions include:
[...] Important chart font updates, including:
[...] Additional support for lesser-used languages and scholarly work was extended, including:
When will the first, all-emoji story or comment appear on SoylentNews? What are people going to do if they use text-only browsers or are visually-impaired?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 29 2020, @02:37AM (18 children)
"What are people going to do if they use text-only browsers"
Is there anything being said here that can't be said in ASCII ?
(Score: 4, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 29 2020, @02:39AM (1 child)
👍🏻
(Score: 3, Informative) by maxwell demon on Sunday March 29 2020, @08:36AM
In ASCII:
Or site specific:
Or if you are concerned about memory:
Indeed, in UTF8 the latter needs half as many bytes as the emoji.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by progo on Sunday March 29 2020, @03:19AM (2 children)
Pokémon; déjà vu; Björk.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 29 2020, @03:28AM
> Pokémon; déjà vu; Björk.
ASCII translation works for me, I won't confuse these if they are spelled like this:
Pokemon; deja vu; Bjork.
Yes, I know, I'm an ugly American, and I probably butcher the pronunciation. But this is a text forum.
(Score: 2) by NateMich on Sunday March 29 2020, @03:29AM
Pokemon; deja vu; Bjork.
They did say can't be said, which I assume means at all.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday March 29 2020, @03:48AM
Saves headaches for the eds when some chucklehead uses non-ascii quotes or emdashes in a story. And gives us something else to mock /. about.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 29 2020, @04:58AM (8 children)
NOT EVEN A PROBLEM NOW.
Try getting a printer to print Japanese characters from a Spanish language laptop reading from a English based server. Go through this everyday.
Then toss in misconfigured machines where FTP is one Code Set, HTTP using another, TElnet using a third, Printers using a forth, and final the server's datbase using a fifth,
So is this a ! or | or is | and !... And the mapping error goes back to IBM and ASCII telnet terminals in from 70's. Shift 1 was I IBM equipment and a ! on ASCII terminals,
SO many years cleaning this C__P up. encluding clean out databases.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday March 29 2020, @06:24AM (5 children)
There are two classes of problems, getting shit done and fiddling.
Fiddling is why you have to write pages of Python code to make the text the Twitter API returns neatly jibe with your code, or why there's no function for a particular binary operation so you have to convert it into a string before fucking with it. Fiddling is why your fairly-straightforward new system build takes 4 hours. Fiddling was getting a Linux system up and running before 2010, period. Fiddling is dealing with a class of tedious but quirky problems that some other son of a bitch should have figured out and, more importantly, shared the solution to already.
(Score: 2) by crafoo on Sunday March 29 2020, @02:07PM (4 children)
Fiddling is also .. when I read your post, then start reading about unary and binary logical operations, then end up watching a 1:50 video covering axiomatic logic, propositional and predicate logic and it's use in mathematical proofs. Also how one of the 16 binary logical operators has a long standing mathematical feud over it's accepted logic table.
Wasn't doing much this morning anyway.
(Score: 2) by Farkus888 on Sunday March 29 2020, @02:38PM (3 children)
It has been a long time since I read a comment I wanted to know more about so much. Links, please? I am also bored and curious.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday March 29 2020, @05:33PM (1 child)
Pirate a discrete math textbook and read the first few chapters of it. Truth tables are tedious as fuck but then you get into predicate logic and that's kinda counterintuitive. Then do Set theory and then see how it neatly applies to combinatorics. Then if you really want a kick in the dick, keep on reading to those page-long proofs that prove the sum of two integers is an integer, or if you're an especially sick puppy, Stirling numbers of the second kind by hand.
(Score: 2) by crafoo on Sunday March 29 2020, @11:10PM
I might just do that. A textbook would be handy. I've just been watching pieces of this video series building up the math necessary for modern physics. How I got there was confusing but fun.
(Score: 2) by crafoo on Sunday March 29 2020, @11:19PM
https://youtu.be/V49i_LM8B0E [youtu.be]
that's the first video in the series I ended up on.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 29 2020, @01:34PM (1 child)
Write code on a mainframe using a 3270 emulator from an IBM PC clone where the flavor of the day could be EBCDIC or ASCII maintaining code written in the 1990s by people who thought it would run for at best ten years.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 30 2020, @01:35AM
I wrote 6 digit date translation and verification ASM code in 1980's that will fail in 2077, fixed our y2k error. I wrote in the comments, that I will repair in 2050, if I same still here. Got 30 more years to go, but was 4 companies ago. :)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 29 2020, @09:11AM
Yeah, like 'ääliö'
(Score: 2) by Mojibake Tengu on Sunday March 29 2020, @10:45AM (1 child)
FreeBSD has Unicode console. No X11 necessary. Unlike poor Linux...
But, best fonts are on Apples, as always were. That's why I use Mac for a terminal...
Respect Authorities. Know your social status. Woke responsibly.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 30 2020, @03:35AM
Welcome to, oh, about 2010 or so? Give or take, depending how quick your distro of choice jumped on the bandwagon.