Notice/Warning on narrowStrings .length

[Nathan M. Swan]

On Friday, 27 April 2012 at 06:12:01 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> 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.
>
> Which means it probably has a Unicode block assigned to it, 
> right now.
> :-)

It was actually the first human writing ever. Which Phoenician 
scribe knew that his innovation of the alphabet would make 
programming easier thousands of years later?