Unicode education in UK Schools

Rebecca T via Unicode unicode at unicode.org
Sat Jul 8 01:16:02 CDT 2017


> That might be a good thing.

Yeah. Very seriously, it’s very important to introduce Unicode early on in
CS
education, even in a “hey, it’s not OK to exclude people who don’t speak
English or people whose names have diacritics from using the programs you
create” sort of way.

Ignorance and apathy for the world’s citizens is a terrible thing and I hope
that every year brings more access to tech, Unicode-enabled and ready, to
more
of humanity.


On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 3:55 PM, Doug Ewell via Unicode <unicode at unicode.org>
wrote:

> Asmus Freytag wrote:
>
> > I've not (yet) located any assignments that try to address any of the
> > "tricky" issues in the use of Unicode.
>
> That might be a good thing. Many introductory lessons or chapters or
> talks about Unicode dive almost immediately into the complexities and
> weirdnesses, much more so than with other technical topics. This scares
> newbies and they walk away thinking every aspect of Unicode is complex
> and weird.
>
> --
> Doug Ewell | Thornton, CO, US | ewellic.org
>
>
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