Notice/Warning on narrowStrings .length

Nick Sabalausky SeeWebsiteToContactMe at semitwist.com
Fri Apr 27 01:37:56 PDT 2012


"H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx> wrote in message 
news:mailman.1.1335507187.22023.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 09:55:54PM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> [...]
>> Crazy stuff! Some of them look rather similar to Arabic or Korean's
>> Hangul (sp?), at least to my untrained eye. And then others are just
>> *really* interesting-looking, like:
>>
>> http://www.omniglot.com/writing/12480.htm
>> http://www.omniglot.com/writing/ayeri.htm
>> http://www.omniglot.com/writing/oxidilogi.htm
>>
>> You're right though, if I were in charge of Unicode and tasked with
>> handling some of those, I think I'd just say "Screw it. Unicode is now
>> depricated.  Use ASCII instead. Doesn't have the characters for your
>> langauge? Tough! Fix your language!" :)
>
> You think that's crazy, huh? Check this out:
>
> http://www.omniglot.com/writing/sumerian.htm
>
> Now take a deep breath...
>
> ... this writing was *actually used* in ancient times. Yeah.
>

Jesus, I could *easily* mistake that for hardware schematics. That's wild.




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