> That might be a good thing. Yeah. Very seriously, it’s very important to introduce Unicode early on in CS education, even in a “hey, it’s not OK to exclude people who don’t speak English or people whose names have diacritics from using the programs you create” sort of way.
Ignorance and apathy for the world’s citizens is a terrible thing and I hope that every year brings more access to tech, Unicode-enabled and ready, to more of humanity. On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 3:55 PM, Doug Ewell via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> wrote: > Asmus Freytag wrote: > > > I've not (yet) located any assignments that try to address any of the > > "tricky" issues in the use of Unicode. > > That might be a good thing. Many introductory lessons or chapters or > talks about Unicode dive almost immediately into the complexities and > weirdnesses, much more so than with other technical topics. This scares > newbies and they walk away thinking every aspect of Unicode is complex > and weird. > > -- > Doug Ewell | Thornton, CO, US | ewellic.org > >
