Re: Displaying Negative Unicode on the Web

From: John Wilcock (john@tradoc.fr)
Date: Wed Nov 21 2001 - 07:06:47 EST


On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 11:47:04 +0100, Thierry Sourbier wrote:
> Unicode does not define any "negative" values, that may be why you are
> having trouble. The "-" sign is probably due to an error (typo? overflow?).
>
> The Simplified Chinese character code point 31111 exists, you can look at it
> at:
> http://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=7987

Could it be that the negative number has come from a misguided attempt
to treat a unicode code point as a *signed* 16-bit number?
If so, this would be U+8679 (which is also a valid CJK character).

John.

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