Re: Plea for the support of unicode escape sequences

[KHMan <keinhong@...>]

On 6/30/2011 11:34 AM, David Given wrote:
> Lorenzo Donati wrote:
> > On 29/06/2011 19.32, Louis Mamakos wrote:
> [...]
> > > I initially thought the word was "Unicorns".  That might be easier to
> > > arrange and get consensus for.  Perhaps rainbows, too.
> >
> > What's the UTF-8 sequence for the unicorn symbol? ;-) :-D
>
> I can't find one, but you might be able to combine 🐎 (U+1F40E HORSE)
> with the right kind of accent. Also there's 🌈 (U+1F308 RAINBOW).
>
> (A lot of people think the new Unicode 6 extensions are a load of 💩
> (U+1F4A9 PILE OF POO).
>
> http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1F300.pdf

Oh wow, I didn't think to check when Perl 5.14 mentioned Unicode 6 
support.

I think I just lost most of my respect for the Unicode 
organization... :-) ;-)

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Cheers,
Kein-Hong Man (esq.)
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia