Re: OT: Unicode Humor

From: Mark Davis (mark@macchiato.com)
Date: Thu Apr 25 2002 - 17:06:58 EDT


While I was on a phone, I made a quick alteration to my chart
generation program, and put up http://www.macchiato.com/unicode/name.

ซ ᐂ ꉼ Ю ᓔ𝐊 ꀀ.
U+0E0B U+1402 U+A27C U+042E U+14D4U+1D40A U+A000.

Mark
—————

Γνῶθι σαυτόν — Θαλῆς
[For transliteration, see http://oss.software.ibm.com/cgi-bin/icu/tr]

http://www.macchiato.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tex Texin" <texin@progress.com>
To: "Kenneth Whistler" <kenw@sybase.com>
Cc: <unicore@unicode.org>; "Unicoders" <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 13:15
Subject: Re: OT: Unicode Humor

> Mark,
> thanks for the suggestion. But I think it would be too much work for
me
> at the moment.
> (Not making the web page, but explaining to Ken why I wouldn't call
> using "SSANGSIOS" for two S's a pun.)
> ;-)
> I did love the two hands one.
>
> Mark, wouldn't it be a good sample page under the transliterator?
;-)
>
>
>
> Kenneth Whistler wrote:
> >
> > Mark,
> >
> > > A certain Mr. M. (name withheld to protect the innocent) asked
me the
> > > following:
> > >
> > > > Has someone, um, collated any of these before?
> > > >
> > > > We U+03DA-ize obsolete characters.
> >
> > Mr. M. presumably meant U+03DA-tize. And no we don't -- we
U+A113-U+308C-cate
> > them.
> >
> > > > Out for a U+03DE coffee.
> > > > We saw the ballgame at U+03E2 stadium.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Anyone here know if there is someplace where these things would
find
> > > themselves? Tex?
> >
> > Find themselves? As in 'he can't find his own U+0F68-U+3146 with
U+2F36'?
> >
> > --U+053F
>
> --
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