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Here's to Unicode, that internationalization panacea,
Let's hope that we'll never find need to replace ya!
Your uniformity, uniqueness, and most of all, universality
Make up your (ten) principled character personality.
On round trips you're compatible with the most obscure
graphemes
Forcing them into normalcy, then encoding schemes.
With the patience of saints, it is no surprise
You have an RFC role to canonicalize.
You bring characters together in dynamic combinations
Assisting programs in correct interpretation
(But never insisting on specific presentations,
Instead leaving that to experts in localization.)
Shall I extol your streamlined Basic Multilingual Plane
Even as it goes beyond FFFF again and again?
About your capacity I can't be too complimentary
I mean, over a million possible characters supplementary!
All the world's modern and ancient scripts are included
(Though Klingon is one the committee eluded;
But still there's no need to resort to hysteria,
For one is equipped with a Private Use Area.)
Each character, too, has a property selection
Such as function and case, position and direction.
Bi-directionality I mean, the right-to-left, left-to-right
one,
Not something as complex as boustrophedon.
Your versatility knows not a boundary;
Many character encodings have emerged from your foundry.
There are 8-, 16-, and 32-bit selections.
(The 7-bit was deprecated for everyone's protection.)
Though, due to certain platform vending and
Other factors, 16-bit is endian.
But Unicode, don't let this praise make you haughty,
For over the years you too have been naughty!
In case you've forgotten, the Korean move,
European currency symbol, and a few others prove
You're not without fault; but these foibles don't mask the
Incredible improvement over US-ASCII.
So here's to Unicode, and to Joe, Mark, and Lee,
For all their hard work and a very low fee.
This repertoire extraordinaire has made its place.
After all, where else could one find a zero-width no-break
space?
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I am the very model of a
modern text encoding scheme,
a million scalars, astral planes, and UTFs like six-&-teen, and UAX and UTR, collation, bidi, properties, I am the very model of a modern text encoding scheme.
I am the very model of a
modern text encoding scheme,
with Latin, Greek and IPA, Cyrillic Hebrew Syriac, Bengali Tamil Arabic, MaLAY-a-LAM Ethiopic, Sinhala Thai Lao Kannada, Tagalog Runic Ogham Greek Syllabics Aboriginal, Mongolian and Balinese, Math-maticals, and Braille, Khmer, plus Glagolitic, Latin-C, And OCR and Number Forms and Letterlike Symbology, Combining Diacriticals, Box Drawing, Dingbats, Currency! There’s Bopomofo, Hiragana, Coptic and Han Radicals, and Unihan and Unihan and Unihan and Unihan and Unihan and Unihan and Unihan and Unihan and Unihan and Unihan and Unihan and Unihan... And Yi, and More Cyrillic, Latin, someday soon some Javanese & Hangul Hangul Hangul Hangul, Surrogate Points, Private Use, The Arab Presentation forms, the Halfwidth and f-E-ff, I am the very model of a modern text encoding scheme! One hundred thousand characters and lots of meta-dater,... But still no Klingon coded there, you’ll have to come back later! |
