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Tim Bray on Unicode & Emoji

Tim Bray's On the Goodness of Unicode is a good introduction to Unicode and why you should care about it.

Today, he writes about Emoji, DoCoMo-defined characters embedded in Unicode's Private Use Area, presumably for use in SMS. Japanese and other ideographic languages are much more susceptible to new characters being invented than English is, though, so these may well end up being part of "Japanese" in a few decades.

He also mentions Dr Suess's On Beyond Zebra, which includes a set of proposed new letters (to name a set of proposed new anmals, of course). He doesn't, however, mention the proposed Unicode extensions to include SEUSS LETTER YUZZ through SEUSS LETTER ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ as U+E630 through U+E64F.

2003-04-22 17:04:00 | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0) | Computers::CharacterSets