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Unicode is nifty.
Sep. 29th, 2005 11:47 pmI just realized that I can cut and paste Chinese characters like any other text.
Since, lately, if I've been writing code, the user interface has been a terminal emulator that can't display Unicode (for example, the first character below, pasted into Terminal, comes out as "\347\245\236"), it's been hard for me to get excited about basically everyone standardizing on UTF-8. On the other hand, it means I can put this in an LJ post:
Each of the two-character phrases below is the name of a quasi-governmental mega-corporation in a well-known science fiction universe — three different science fiction universes:
I am thinking of making a costume consisting of corporate-logo gear from these three companies.
Since, lately, if I've been writing code, the user interface has been a terminal emulator that can't display Unicode (for example, the first character below, pasted into Terminal, comes out as "\347\245\236"), it's been hard for me to get excited about basically everyone standardizing on UTF-8. On the other hand, it means I can put this in an LJ post:
Each of the two-character phrases below is the name of a quasi-governmental mega-corporation in a well-known science fiction universe — three different science fiction universes:
鄭和
靑日
神羅
( Answers... )I am thinking of making a costume consisting of corporate-logo gear from these three companies.
