Unicode Haiku

About the Unicode Haiku

To celebrate the 33rd Internationalization and Unicode Conference, the Unicode Consortium launched a haiku contest, inviting people to show how they feel about Unicode in poetry! The winners were announced at the IUC 33 reception on Thursday, October 15, 2009.

Top 10 Haiku Entries

Mark Crispin	Unicode has planes But not a power of two Strangely seventeen
Jon Hanna	To praise Unicode In seventeen syllables Is very diffic-
Alex LeDonne	U two six three A communication distilled there is no boundary
Ken Lunde	Beyond BMP So many ideographs So many Extensions
Geraldine	Renegade glyphs hide in private use area oh the blasphemy!
Caitlin Johnstone	Normal people think Haikus about Unicode Are really nerdy
Ken Whistler	LATIN SMALL LETTER DOTLESS J WITH STROKE AND HOOK What the heck is that?!
Eli Evans	Searching, scanning down a page choked up with symbols yes! 2 6 3 A
Jon Hanna	A harsh lonely night, my Private Use Area has no assignments
Erik Pedersen	Police Unicode -- Tous les caractères du monde -- Qu'est-ce-qu'on écrit?

 

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