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11 years ago
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on: I Can’t Write My Name in Unicode
No, the argument is "Why didn't the Unicode authors make the same technical choice I would have based on my limited knowledge of this topic -- including not knowing that the pile of poo was created for use in the Japanese market; as well as not knowing that I could participate myself for just $75, not the $18,000 lie in my story; and not understanding the nuances of international standardization; or reviewing the list of international liaisons to the Unicode organization where much of the language-specific work is done?"
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11 years ago
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on: I Can’t Write My Name in Unicode
Any Bengali scholar can join the work for $75.
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11 years ago
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on: I Can’t Write My Name in Unicode
Had nothing to do with proving they were not humorless fascists. There was a legitimate need for a universal codepoint among Japanese cellphone operators. Keep in mind, Japanese is a language where frequently entire concepts are represented in a single character, so this isn't perhaps as odd as you think. "Poo" had a specific semantic in "cellphone Japanese" that the market demanded. To be used interoperably with other Unicode characters, various 'emoji' were added to Unicode. I, for one, retain the right to be called a humorless fascist.
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11 years ago
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on: I Can’t Write My Name in Unicode
And a native Bengali speaker has discussed his input into the Unicode discussions and why he disagreed with the author. What do you know about the linguistic input into the work or the participants? Did you check the huge international lists of liaisons that the author ignored? It costs $75 to join Unicode.
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11 years ago
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on: I Can’t Write My Name in Unicode
Generally true, but the problem here is not an issue of bandwidth or racism. Unicode can represent this character, but does so with two codepoints, a technical decision the author doesn't feel is useful. He blames this on the dominance of white people in the work (a questionable assumption, given he didn't link to the extensive list of international liaisons and international standards bodies). The participants in Unicode, including a native Bengali speaker who responded above, considered the argument presented but chose a different path to be consistent with how other characters are treated. The author needs to more carefully distinguish the codepoint, input, and rendering issues raised in his argument.
