Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Huge Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Around the world with Unicode Date: 4 Dec 2017 21:30:11 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <20171204133451.a5109b83.rsw@therandymon.com> Reply-To: usenet@huge.org.uk X-Trace: individual.net 1qztgI+S9voOY3QCCZQ6oQaQxtWT635FM0cEP/Z9lBVSEMSaig Cancel-Lock: sha1:p0mqIDlUgIKd5wDt9rYvDwCE9ug= X-No-Archive: Yes X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:15076 On 2017-12-04, RS Wood wrote: > https://norasandler.com/2017/11/02/Around-the-with-Unicode.html > > A pretty funny read (all hail the brakcet!!!): > > //-- clip > Unicode is really exciting, because it lets software handle two things: I worked for Xerox for a few years at one point, in their Tech Pubs department. One of my jobs was the care and feeding of the machine translation systems we used to translate product documentation (mostly service manuals) between various languages. This stuff still fascinates me. Thank you for bringing this to my attention. -- Today is Pungenday, the 46th day of The Aftermath in the YOLD 3183 Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.