On 15/09/2019 11:08, Gordon Henderson
wrote:
On
Sun, 15 Sep 2019, maceion@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
However I would not have seen any 'emojie'
[nor understood it] as I
download only in pure text.
It's Emoji.
An it's nothing more than the modern, 2000's update on the
Emiticon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji
They are expressed in Unicode framework using the utf-8 character
set. That is effectively "pure text" in todays parlance as the
first 127 characters in utf-8 are the same as the first 127
characters in ASCII. The days of 7-bit character sets left us with
the introduction of "Code page 437 " or 8-bit ASCII then CP819
then ISO 8859-x round about the time the IBM PC came on the scene.
It's an 8-bit character set with extensions - which is much easier
to represent, store and manipulate than wide, 16 or 24 bit
characters that the boffins tried for while...
Pass me the 820Ω resistor please, paired with the 0.1µF capacitor,
it'll make a nice little filter. It's a nice day. 18°C today.
And the difference between an Ω and a 😁 not a lot in a modern
Linux, really. Some are harder to type than others, but my
relatively old Xterm seems to work just fine for them.
Yes, it was ugly with varying "standards" in the early days, but
now it's generally accepted. Even if it's a 💩
(And if you see that as a box with 01 F4 A9, then you need an
update ;-)
https://emojipedia.org/pile-of-poo/
PETSCII, anyone?
Gordon
Much appreciated. Sorry for spelling.
It seems we are developing back to pictographic communication like
the Chinese.
Umn! 10,000 characters for a learned professor known as a
vocabulary and about1800 characters for a student to go to
university.
We get a lot more understood words by using an alphabet, but
pictograms can help.
Look up the Pictish V and crescent, now known to covey the growing
season at that latitude. (Angle between the V arms).
Japanese 'emoji' Kaomoji (顔文字)
can run into many thousands as their imagination has been sparked
greatly from the base of Kanji.
We need more words!
Eionmac
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Regards
Eion MacDonald
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