I Can Text You ?, But I Can’t Write My Name
►https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/i-can-text-you-a-pile-of-poo-but-i-cant-write-my-name
#unicode #emoji #asie
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They [members of the #Unicode_Consortium ] are comprised largely of white men (and a few white women) whose first language was either English or another European language.
Many of them work for one of the nine organizations that hold full membership in the Consortium. Seven of these nine are US-based technology companies: Adobe, Apple, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, and Yahoo. One (SAP) is a German technology company. These companies have, by their very own admission, workforces that are overwhelmingly white, and leadership and tech teams that are even less represented by racial minorities. These reports lump Indians together under the broad umbrella “Asians”, so while it’s impossible to know exactly how badly various ethnic groups or native languages are actually represented, the data is far from encouraging.
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Even today, I am forced to do this [hack] when writing my own name. My name is not only a common Indian name, but one of the top 1,000 names in the United States as well.
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Mouais. Il me semble qu’il confonde #Unicode (une liste de caractères) avec les techniques de saisie des caractères (qui ne sont pas spécifiées par Unicode et sont en effet un beau b...l).
Pour illustrer la différence, pour les francophones, je note que sur mon clavier, je dois taper trois caractères pour faire un œ et deux pour un ÿ, bien que chacun de ces caractères soit un caractère unique et de plein droit dans Unicode !
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