I Can’t Write My Name in Unicode

Re:I Can’t Write My Name in Unicode by jsmthrowaway on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @02:22PM (#9220099)

My first choice as theoretical Quentin wouldn't be "how can I frame this accidental, perhaps even flagrantly disrespectful omission as antiprogressive and dissect the credentials, experience, and ethnicity of the people who made the mistake via culture essay," it would probably be "where do I issue a pull request to fix this mistake or in what way can I help?"

Maybe that's just me. I look forward to the future where any mistake not involving a straight white Anglo-Saxon man or his customs can be built up as antiprogressive agenda, and the best advocacy is taking the people who made them down rather than fixing the problem that is the, you know, problem.

(As an aside, imagine my surprise to see a Model View Culture link on HN given how much MVC absolutely hates and criticizes HN, including a weekly "worst of HN" comment dissection.)

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Re:I Can’t Write My Name in Unicode by kens on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @08:43PM (#9222769)

Anyone can propose the addition of a new character to Unicode. It doesn't take $18,000 as some people think. You just need to convince the Unicode Consortium that it makes sense (preferably with solid evidence on use of the character). The process is discussed at: http://unicode.org/pending/proposals.html

I have a proposal of my own in the works to add a character to Unicode, so I'll see how it goes. There's a discussion of how someone successfully got the power symbol added to Unicode at https://github.com/jloughry/Unicode so take a look if you're thinking of proposing a character.

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Re:I Can’t Write My Name in Unicode by __david__ on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @05:24PM (#9221607)

> …including a weekly "worst of HN" comment dissection.

That sounds interesting, but I can't find any reference to it on their site or search engines. Do you have a link?

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Re:I Can’t Write My Name in Unicode by jsmthrowaway on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @10:24PM (#9223217)

They appear to have deleted at least some. Here's one.

https://web.archive.org/web/20140724125906/http://modelviewc...

When you see a piece on MVC by "The Editors," that's code for Shanley Kane writing under an anonymous byline.

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Re:I Can’t Write My Name in Unicode by ohjesusthatguy on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @03:42PM (#9220750)

"My first choice as theoretical Quentin wouldn't be "how can I frame this accidental, perhaps even flagrantly disrespectful omission as antiprogressive and dissect the credentials, experience, and ethnicity of the people who made the mistake via culture essay," it would probably be "where do I issue a pull request to fix this mistake or in what way can I help?" "

I could tell you, but I'll need $18,000 first.

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Re:I Can’t Write My Name in Unicode by ohjesusthatguy on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @01:38PM (#9227242)

Just because I'm harsh doesn't mean I don't love you guys :)

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Re:I Can’t Write My Name in Unicode by ohjesusthatguy on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @02:45PM (#9227771)

Hey how do I get downvotes? No fair! :) Answer: I could tell you, but you need 2070 karma first :) :)

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Re:I Can’t Write My Name in Unicode by dang on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @08:04PM (#9229464)

From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html:

"Resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downvote you."

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