Not everyone can write their name in Unicode.
It would seem that all possible and impossible characters were included in Unicode. In the latest version of Unicode 7.0, 23 new writings were added, including Old Permian letters and the almost completely decoded linear letter A of the Minoan civilization of 2000 BC, hundreds of exotic emoticons.
The total number of characters in Unicode has exceeded 110,000. It would seem that there are already all the common symbols . It turns out that it is not. There are still people who can not even write their own name in Unicode. They have to resort to different tricks.
An Indian IT specialist , whose name we cannot correctly type, spoke about his problem, except in transliteration: Aditya Mukareji.
The native language of the guy is Bengali, it is the seventh most popular language in the world, which is significantly ahead of even Russian in terms of the number of speakers. Can you imagine that not all Russian characters are represented in Unicode? But for Bengali is a familiar thing.
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Bengali characters
Bengali is represented in Unicode from the very first version, but from the very beginning it lacked characters. Residents of the country had to reinvent the wheel, filling in the missing characters when writing with combinations of similar letters and numbers, as in the hacker l33tspeak. Thus, his own name can be written with a similar grapheme from related writing: আদিত্য.
Missing letter
In 2005, some characters were added, but not all. His name still lacks a letter, although it is not at all some exotic, but is ubiquitous in India and even belongs to the 1000 most popular names in the United States .
Aditya Mukareji accuses the technical incompetence of the employees of the Unicode consortium, who are engaged in the preparation of the standard. A bold expert even makes racist hints. According to him, there are too many white English-speaking people among the staff . The audacity can be understood: as an advanced user of digital technology, he has already suffered a lot in his life because of his “bad” name.
Aditya fears that the Unicode consortium is not going to change the list of 224,024 characters that are planned to be included in Unicode in the coming years.
This story is also an interesting example of the fact that modern technology can not only simplify life, but also complicate it.
The total number of characters in Unicode has exceeded 110,000. It would seem that there are already all the common symbols . It turns out that it is not. There are still people who can not even write their own name in Unicode. They have to resort to different tricks.
An Indian IT specialist , whose name we cannot correctly type, spoke about his problem, except in transliteration: Aditya Mukareji.
The native language of the guy is Bengali, it is the seventh most popular language in the world, which is significantly ahead of even Russian in terms of the number of speakers. Can you imagine that not all Russian characters are represented in Unicode? But for Bengali is a familiar thing.
')
Bengali characters
Bengali is represented in Unicode from the very first version, but from the very beginning it lacked characters. Residents of the country had to reinvent the wheel, filling in the missing characters when writing with combinations of similar letters and numbers, as in the hacker l33tspeak. Thus, his own name can be written with a similar grapheme from related writing: আদিত্য.
Missing letter
In 2005, some characters were added, but not all. His name still lacks a letter, although it is not at all some exotic, but is ubiquitous in India and even belongs to the 1000 most popular names in the United States .
Aditya Mukareji accuses the technical incompetence of the employees of the Unicode consortium, who are engaged in the preparation of the standard. A bold expert even makes racist hints. According to him, there are too many white English-speaking people among the staff . The audacity can be understood: as an advanced user of digital technology, he has already suffered a lot in his life because of his “bad” name.
Aditya fears that the Unicode consortium is not going to change the list of 224,024 characters that are planned to be included in Unicode in the coming years.
This story is also an interesting example of the fact that modern technology can not only simplify life, but also complicate it.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/253381/
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