Unicode education in Schools

[William_J_G Overington via Unicode]

Richard Wordingham wrote:

> Just steer them away from UTF-16!  (And vigorously prohibit the very concept of UCS-2).

UTF-16 is very useful. I use it in my research project.

If the byte content of a UTF-16 file is displayed in a hexadecimal display then for all plane 0 characters the byte content of the character codes are thereby displayed directly.

Also, all characters that can be encoded in Unicode can be stored in a UTF-16 file.

William Overington

Friday 25 August 2017


 
----Original message----
>From : unicode at unicode.org
Date : 2017/08/25 - 00:23 (GMTST)
To : unicode at unicode.org
Subject : Re: Unicode education in Schools

On Thu, 24 Aug 2017 17:17:10 +0000
Andre Schappo via Unicode <unicode at unicode.org> wrote:

> So, I consider it important to familiarise students with SMP
> characters as well as BMP characters. Then when they develop software
> they will, at the start, be thinking beyond ASCII and Unicode BMP
> characters.

Just steer them away from UTF-16!  (And vigorously prohibit the very
concept of UCS-2).

Richard.