Unicode

[Devin Asay]

On May 5, 2005, at 1:50 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> On 5/5/05 1:55 PM, Devin Asay wrote:
>
>> Go to <http://revolution.byu.edu>, click on Revolution by Topic, then 
>> scroll down to Revolution and Unicode.
>
> Whoa! There's our whole scripting conference, all done for us! Where 
> have I been? How did this gem of a site get past me? How long have I 
> been so ignorant? (That last was rhetorical. I don't want to know.)
>
> Devin, this is an amazing site. Now I have to figure out how to rope 
> you into doing a conference for us. My brain has apparently been set 
> to "stun" for a while.

The site is the result of years of accrued teaching notes by me and my 
colleagues, dating back to our HyperCard days. Only recently did I make 
the effort to organize it into a more general format that would be 
useful beyond just our courses. My next step is to create a Rev 
stack/app that my students can use to pull all the lecture notes and 
example stacks into one handy package and avoid the browser altogether 
(thanks, Richard Gaskin, for opening my mind on this).

It's amazing how the prospect of explaining Rev and unicode to a room 
full of students who've never even heard of unicode focuses the mind 
and forces you to really push through until you "get" it.

Glad you all have found it useful.

Devin

Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University