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February 3, 2012 01:53 pm PST
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Unicode's "Pile of Poo" character
For many years, most of the Internet ran on ASCII, a character set that had a limited number of accents and diacriticals, and which didn't support non-Roman script at all. Unicode, a massive, sprawling replacement, has room for all sorts of characters and alphabets, and can be extended with "private use areas" that include support [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/HdDUzubzBcA/unicodes-pile-of-poo-cha.html
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