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Unicode Haiku

About the Unicode Haiku

To celebrate the 33rd Internationalization and Unicode Conference, the Unicode Consortium launched a haiku contest, inviting people to show how they feel about Unicode in poetry! The winners were announced at the IUC 33 reception on Thursday, October 15, 2009.

Top 10 Haiku Entries

Mark Crispin Unicode has planes
But not a power of two
Strangely seventeen
Jon Hanna To praise Unicode
In seventeen syllables
Is very diffic-
Alex LeDonne

U two six three A
communication distilled
there is no boundary

Ken Lunde Beyond BMP
So many ideographs
So many Extensions
Geraldine Renegade glyphs hide
in private use area
oh the blasphemy!
Caitlin Johnstone Normal people think
Haikus about Unicode
Are really nerdy
Ken Whistler LATIN SMALL LETTER
DOTLESS J WITH STROKE AND HOOK
What the heck is that?!
Eli Evans Searching, scanning down
a page choked up with symbols
yes! 2 6 3 A
Jon Hanna A harsh lonely night,
my Private Use Area
has no assignments
Erik Pedersen Police Unicode --
Tous les caractères du monde --
Qu'est-ce-qu'on écrit?