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| From | The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.os.linux, comp.os.linux.misc, comp.os.linux.advocacy |
| Subject | Re: Any Unicode Experts? |
| Date | 2021-08-07 09:36 +0100 |
| Organization | A little, after lunch |
| Message-ID | <selgna$b2l$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <sejhjm022lo@news2.newsguy.com> <eli$2108061626@qaz.wtf> |
Cross-posted to 3 groups.
On 06/08/2021 21:27, Eli the Bearded wrote: > (Follow-up to comp.os.linux.advocacy ignored.) > > In comp.os.linux.misc, FR <fr@random.info> wrote: >> ASCII is dead as it should be. It goes back to the telegraph era >> (i.e. Morse code). The first 32 bytes (except EOL, LF, and CR) >> of ASCII are transmission control codes that are no longer relevant. > ... >> As far as I know, the first 32 bytes (except CR and LF) are >> just dead space. Is this correct? > > No, absolutely not. > > Null and horizontal tab get a lot of use still. Vertical tab and > form feed get a little. Arguably escape and backspace get used (eg > terminal control sequences). Whatever the status of the rest vis-a-vis > newly composed documents, their meanings remain unchanged for historical > documents. > Ctrl-Z and Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V have a lot of use too > Unicode, covering Linear A (U+10600 to U+1077F, in use from 1800 to 1450 > BC) to Signwriting (U+1D800 to U+1DAAF, a generalized notation for > writing down sign languages) aims to include modern and historical > content. Just because you should not expect to generate new content > with start of heading (SOH) or end transmission block (ETB), doesn't > mean those characters are dead space. > Indeed not. They are handy as with all 'out of band' text characters as control characters on communications streams that could conceivably be useful again sometime in the future > Elijah > ------ > has a soft spot for ␗ U+0017 > -- Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early twenty-first century’s developed world went into hysterical panic over a globally average temperature increase of a few tenths of a degree, and, on the basis of gross exaggerations of highly uncertain computer projections combined into implausible chains of inference, proceeded to contemplate a rollback of the industrial age. Richard Lindzen
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Any Unicode Experts? FR <fr@random.info> - 2021-08-06 14:39 +0000
Re: Any Unicode Experts? FR <fr@random.info> - 2021-08-06 15:01 +0000
US-ASCII is a subset of the set of Unicode code points. Jeff-Relf.Me @. - 2021-08-06 08:15 -0700
Re: US-ASCII is a subset of the set of Unicode code points. "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2021-08-06 17:36 +0200
Re: US-ASCII is a subset of the set of Unicode code points. FR <fr@random.info> - 2021-08-06 15:49 +0000
Re: US-ASCII is a subset of the set of Unicode code points. "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2021-08-06 18:48 +0200
Re: US-ASCII is a subset of the set of Unicode code points. FR <fr@random.info> - 2021-08-06 17:57 +0000
Re: Any Unicode Experts? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2021-08-06 18:10 +0000
Re: Any Unicode Experts? Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2021-08-06 20:27 +0000
Re: Any Unicode Experts? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-08-07 09:36 +0100
Re: Any Unicode Experts? Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2021-08-08 04:32 +0000
Re: Any Unicode Experts? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2021-08-07 22:50 -0600
Re: Any Unicode Experts? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2021-08-08 17:27 +0000
Re: Any Unicode Experts? "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2021-08-08 20:21 +0200
Re: Any Unicode Experts? Jack Strangio <jackstrangio@yahoo.com> - 2021-08-09 13:58 +0000
Re: Any Unicode Experts? jak <nospam@please.ty> - 2021-08-08 20:32 +0200
Re: Any Unicode Experts? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2021-08-08 18:00 -0600
"while(1);" borks Visual Studio. Jeff-Relf.Me @. - 2021-08-08 18:11 -0700
Re: "while(1);" borks Visual Studio. rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2021-08-08 22:19 -0600
Re: "while(1);" borks Visual Studio. Soviet_Mario <SovietMario@CCCP.MIR> - 2021-08-16 16:06 +0200
Re: "while(1);" borks Visual Studio. jak <nospam@please.ty> - 2021-08-10 18:02 +0200
while(malloc(666)); Jeff-Relf.Me @. - 2021-08-10 09:28 -0700
Re: while(malloc(666)); jak <nospam@please.ty> - 2021-08-10 18:39 +0200
Re: Any Unicode Experts? jak <nospam@please.ty> - 2021-08-09 07:28 +0200
Re: Any Unicode Experts? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2021-08-09 07:56 -0600
Re: Any Unicode Experts? jak <nospam@please.ty> - 2021-08-10 10:33 +0200
Re: Any Unicode Experts? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-08-10 12:49 +0100
Re: Any Unicode Experts? jak <nospam@please.ty> - 2021-08-10 15:26 +0200
Re: Any Unicode Experts? vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2021-08-10 13:43 +0000
Re: Any Unicode Experts? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2021-08-10 21:12 -0600
Re: Any Unicode Experts? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-08-11 12:25 +0100
Re: Any Unicode Experts? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2021-08-11 16:52 +0000
Re: Any Unicode Experts? jak <nospam@please.ty> - 2021-08-11 20:19 +0200
Re: Any Unicode Experts? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2021-08-12 16:37 +0000
Re: Any Unicode Experts? jak <nospam@please.ty> - 2021-08-12 20:32 +0200
Re: Any Unicode Experts? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2021-08-12 20:40 -0600
Re: Any Unicode Experts? Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2021-08-10 16:11 -0400
Re: Any Unicode Experts? Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2021-08-13 17:42 +0000
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