Re: Is this expression viewable on sci.math?
- From: Timothy Little <tim-usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 11:06:32 +0000 (UTC)
Thorsten Klein wrote:
> Hey, folks, we live in the third millennium by now! *Every* computer
> can display Unicode nowadays.
I haven't seen one yet. Seriously. Running various flavours of
Windows, Mac, BSD, Linux, Solaris, and others. I've seen plenty of
applications and systems that claim to support Unicode, which
generally only handle a small subset of Unicode, and intelligibly
render even less.
Even systems that could fully support Unicode need not be able to
display the characters within it. Unicode is a standard for character
encoding and manipulation. The standard doesn't specify what the
characters will look like. An application that renders every
character as a 4x8 block of black-and-white pixels corresponding to
the bits in its code could perfectly well claim to support Unicode,
even though it would be unintelligible to almost all users.
- Tim
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