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Phil Edwards 145,818 lượt xem 2 years ago
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Decoding unicode.
Reaction vid: https://www.patreon.com/posts/reaction-video-i-80224244

More info and sources at bottom.
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This actually ended up my favorite website to surf random Unicode on:
https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/

1991 article about Unicode:
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1991/02/20/280091.html?pageNumber=65

John Cook post I remade the chart from:
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2019/09/01/growth-of-unicode-over-time/#:~:text=Growth%20of%20Unicode%20over%20time&text=The%20first%20version%20of%20Unicode,is%20about%2019%20times%20bigger

Nice for comparing Emoji renderings:
https://emojipedia.org

Google's chart of Unicode Adoption:
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Ap14FtNN91w/SBzrtHJfLnI/AAAAAAAAA5U/TV7_g2_sWq0/s1600-h/Unicode2.gif

More technical history that got me started (along with lots of YT videos):
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/the-absolute-minimum-every-software-developer-absolutely-positively-must-know-about-unicode-and-character-sets-no-excuses/

Unicode V1 - in general, their site has a lot of documents you can look through.
https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode1.0.0/

Unicode 88:
https://unicode.org/history/unicode88.pdf

Debut of Ascii: https://www.sr-ix.com/Archive/CharCodeHist/X3.4-1963/index.html

Page all about Noto:
https://fonts.google.com/noto

Didn't run into a ton of Academic papers (or didn't look), so Unicode ended up being the most useful starting place.

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