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Socoder -> Off Topic -> F'ing Unicode!! |
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| Thu, 05 Jan 2012, 18:56 | |
JL235
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the pound sign hatred of PHP is because it doesn’t have proper Unicode support, and £ isn’t in ASCII (unlike the dollar, which is silly)
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| Thu, 05 Jan 2012, 18:56 | |
steve_ancell
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I still remember the Amstrad CPC days, if a character wasn't there, you could just redefine an existing one.
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| Thu, 05 Jan 2012, 19:59 | |
Stealth
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It's all good. I heard they are hiring a real programmer this year to get that fixed 
-=-=- Quit posting and try Google. 
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| Thu, 05 Jan 2012, 21:22 | |
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JL235
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About time! Of all languages out there, web ones especially need unicode support. I'm so glad I'm English so I don't have to worry about trying to get my own language working in PHP. Even JS allows you to define variables and methods using unicode (as long as it's a real letter or word, in some language, somewhere). |
| Fri, 06 Jan 2012, 00:29 | |
Afr0
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Heh, this debate makes me snicker. It's not like I make functions called just because I'm a Norwegian. For comments, I can see the issue, but even comments are nice to write in English if you want them to be understood by others. Edit: How come the Æ, Ø and Å characters are rendered fine when I write something, but not when they are displayed in a topic? -=-=- Afr0 Games Project Dollhouse on Github - Please fork!
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| Fri, 06 Jan 2012, 01:56 | |
Jayenkai
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And yet many more banging of heads against keyboards is still to come. Somewhat ironic that all of this is based on an UPGRADE of PHP. ...Upgrades are supposed to make the languages better, right?! -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
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| Fri, 06 Jan 2012, 02:34 | |
rockford
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 I still remember the Amstrad CPC days, if a character wasn't there, you could just redefine an existing one. Those were the days! Most of my games back then used the character set for the graphics. Spent many a happy hour with pads of graph paper, designing 8x8 chars then coding them into my CPC 
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| Fri, 06 Jan 2012, 05:19 | |
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steve_ancell
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Yeah, those were the days, I made a Cave Man/Terradactyl style game that used that used redefined chars, except my game had a space shuttle thing that you could shoot at with a rocket shaped thing at the bottom of the screen. I had some sort of program that allowed me to make the chars on screen, it saved on producing heaps of waste paper. LOL |edit| Shame I lost the cassettes and disks of my gamemaking attempts, that would have been such a nostalgic blast for present times. |edit| |
| Fri, 06 Jan 2012, 11:20 | |
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JL235
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@Afr0, agreed, you shouldn't really use it in code. But it's like having a watch that is waterproof to a 1000 meters. I'll never take it to that depth, but it means if I ever leave it on in the bath, or take it to the beach, I can be confident it'll be ok. |
| Fri, 06 Jan 2012, 11:38 | |
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Jayenkai
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Deep bath!!! Unicode's been my arch nemesis since I started doing StringyThings for Windows Smartphone, about 6/7(?) years ago. Damn thing drove me crazy then, and still does to this day. Uninteresting note : The newsletters haven't contained "..." for AGES! If I type that on Mac, it magically changes it to a unicode-based tripledot, and fucks up the newsletter converter.. -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
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