Unicode 16 Is Out

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

A few more language blocks, plus a few more emojis, and some “legacy
computing” symbols. Oh, and a bunch of extra Egyptian hieroglyphs.

“Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the pyramid...”

<http://blog.unicode.org/>

[John McCue]

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <***@nz.invalid> wrote:
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and some legacy computing symbols.

I wonder what this means. Legacy to me means all these symbols
were 7-bit ASCII. So now we have multiple encodings for '<'
and '>' plus a whole host of others already represented in
ASCII ?

That is crazy, it is bad enough there are multiple symbols
for single-dashes and quotes.

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<http://blog.unicode.org/>

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

Legacy to me means all these symbols were 7-bit ASCII.

ASCII was already included in Unicode from the beginning.

So now we have multiple encodings for '<' and '>' plus a
whole host of others already represented in ASCII ?

I don’t see any such in the new Legacy Computing block.

That is crazy, it is bad enough there are multiple symbols for
single-dashes and quotes.

Which ones do you think are not distinctly different?

[John McCue]

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Post by Lawrence D'Oliveiro

That is crazy, it is bad enough there are multiple symbols for
single-dashes and quotes.

Which ones do you think are not distinctly different?

See:

https://jkorpela.fi/dashes.html

To me there is no need for multiple '-' characters.
One should be enough. I read it, but I will always
say '-' is all that is needed. Same goes for double
and single quotes :)

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

Post by John McCue

Post by Lawrence D'Oliveiro
Which ones do you think are not distinctly different?

https://jkorpela.fi/dashes.html

They all have different representations/meanings, which is why they’re
there.

Post by John McCue
To me there is no need for multiple '-' characters.

Not good enough for typeset-quality text. Even if you want to confine
yourself to English text in Roman script, which a lot of people don’t.

[Eli the Bearded]

Post by John McCue
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and some legacy computing symbols.

I wonder what this means. Legacy to me means all these symbols
were 7-bit ASCII. So now we have multiple encodings for '<'
and '>' plus a whole host of others already represented in
ASCII ?

In this case it's some checkboard patterns outside of U+0020 to U+007F
"ASCII" range used by some legacy system.

https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-16.0/U160-2400.pdf

U+2427, U+2428, and U+2429.

U+2427 I know was used as a delete cursor on Apple IIe systems, I don't
know about the others, but probably similar stories.

Elijah
------
sponsor of U+2417 in that same code block

[Richmond]

Post by John McCue
<snip>

and some legacy computing symbols.

I wonder what this means. Legacy to me means all these symbols
were 7-bit ASCII. So now we have multiple encodings for '<'
and '>' plus a whole host of others already represented in
ASCII ?
That is crazy, it is bad enough there are multiple symbols
for single-dashes and quotes.
<snip>

<http://blog.unicode.org/>

The £ is obviously essential.

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

Post by Richmond
The £ is obviously essential.

€, ¢, ¥, ₩, ₦, ₢, ₹, ₺, ₯, ₮, ₽ ...