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Well, I guess what you say is true,
I could never be the right kind of girl for you,
I could never be your woman
- White Town
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$B:9=P?M(B: Rick McGowan <rick@unicode.org>;
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$B7oL>(B: Re: The byte
>11@onna.com wrote:
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>> The existence of the byte sucks.
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>Well, I suggest therefore that you do Civilizaton a favor and incidentally
>leave your indelible Mark on History by devoting every waking moment of the
>rest of your life to stamping out the accursed byte.
>
> Rick
>
Analogy:
Computers do math in binary. It does not matter that few but the programmers use binary (hex, etc.); they use their own system.
There exists a programming language (I forget the name) which addresses booleans directly. Make your Unicode string out of chunks of 21 booleans.
Me trying to stamp out the 8-bit byte would be like trying to reform English spelling: a noble, futile aim.
(P.S. Any dictionary makers out there, why not collate English words by their pronunciation, starting with the last phoneme (for rhyming)?)
UTF-21 is a good idea, right?
1114111 is a weird number. Or is it 1114112?
I think it is 1114112. (Numbers are hard to type. So I typed it in hiragana in my IME and told it to give me digits.)(It is a very good trick for large numbers.)
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