russ ([info]goulo) wrote,
@ 2003-12-30 11:06:00
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w 3laikom essalaaam
I noticed that indeed linguists are studying l33tspeak and variations (like I suspected)... in this case, the dialect is Gulf Arabic in Instant Messaging.

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[info]ivo
2003-12-30 12:12 pm UTC (link)
From the article:

More recent standards include Unicode (based on a 16-bit system allowing 65,536 basic characters), which claims to offer "a unique number for every character, no matter what the platform, no matter what the program, no matter what the language" (Unicode Consortium, 2002).

That's incorrect, right? Only a certain representation of Unicode is 16-bit, no?

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[info]goulo
2003-12-30 02:54 pm UTC (link)
The part in quote marks is right (a unique number for every character - and note that these numbers are independent of encoding/representation of them in bytes) but the 65,536 count is indeed obsolete (as more than 216 characters ended up in the standard, though it was believed for a long time that would be an upper bound). http://www.unicode.org/faq/basic_q.html#10 notes there are about 70000 characters now. Perhaps in a sloppy sense it is correct to say Unicode is "based on" a 16-bit system, since the current Unicode standard is "based on" the older versions of the standard. :)

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