On Thursday, June 20, 2013 1:26:17 AM UTC-5, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> The *implementation* is easy to explain. It's the names of
> the encodings which I get tangled up in.
Well, ignoring the fact that you're last explanation is
still buggy, you have not actually described an
"implementation", no, you've merely generalized ( and quite
vaguely i might add) the technical specification of a few
encoding. Let's ask Wikipedia to enlighten us on the
subject of "implementation":
############################################################
# Define: Implementation #
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# In computer science, an implementation is a realization #
# of a technical specification or algorithm as a program, #
# software component, or other computer system through #
# computer programming and deployment. Many #
# implementations may exist for a given specification or #
# standard. For example, web browsers contain #
# implementations of World Wide Web Consortium-recommended #
# specifications, and software development tools contain #
# implementations of programming languages. #
############################################################
Do you think someone could reliably implement the alphabet of a new
language in Unicode by using the general outline you
provided? -- again, ignoring your continual fumbling when
explaining that simple generalization :-)
Your generalization is analogous to explaining web browsers
as: "software that allows a user to view web pages in the
range www.*" Do you think someone could implement a web
browser from such limited specification? (if that was all
they knew?).
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Since we're on the subject of Unicode:
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One the most humorous aspects of Unicode is that it has
encodings for Braille characters. Hmm, this presents a
conundrum of sorts. RIDDLE ME THIS?!
Since Braille is a type of "reading" for the blind by
utilizing the sense of touch (therefore DEMANDING 3
dimensions) and glyphs derived from Unicode are
restrictively two dimensional, because let's face it people,
Unicode exists in your computer, and computer screens are
two dimensional... but you already knew that -- i think?,
then what is the purpose of a Unicode Braille character set?
That should haunt your nightmares for some time.
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