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Michel Mariani

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Considerations about Egyptian Hieroglyph legacy characters, by Michel Suignard, proposing to add a new kEH_AltMapping property to the Unikemet database (UAX#57):

🔗 unicode.org/L2/L2025/25110-egy

Examples of Egyptian hieroglyph variants: 𓃺𓃹 𓅩𓅨 𓅫𓅪 𓂩𓂧
ALT text detailsExamples of Egyptian hieroglyph variants: 𓃺𓃹 𓅩𓅨 𓅫𓅪 𓂩𓂧
Examples of pairs of horizontally mirrored Egyptian hieroglyphs: 𓁜𓁝 𓁛𓁞 𓁩𓁪 𓁫𓁬
ALT text detailsExamples of pairs of horizontally mirrored Egyptian hieroglyphs: 𓁜𓁝 𓁛𓁞 𓁩𓁪 𓁫𓁬
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Unicopedia Ægypta is a developer-oriented set of utilities related to Egyptian hieroglyphs, wrapped into one single app, built with .

Repository: 🔗 codeberg.org/tonton-pixel/unic

Unicopedia Ægypta Social Preview
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Michel Mariani

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Unicopedia Plus is a developer-oriented set of Unicode, Unihan, Unikemet & emoji utilities wrapped into one single app, built with .

Repository: 🔗 codeberg.org/tonton-pixel/unic

Unicopedia Plus Social Preview
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Unicopedia Sinica is a developer-oriented set of utilities related to ideographs, wrapped into one single app, built with .

Repository: 🔗 codeberg.org/tonton-pixel/unic

Unicopedia Sinica Social Preview
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:

U+2640 FEMALE SIGN
U+2642 MALE SIGN
U+26A2 DOUBLED FEMALE SIGN
U+26A3 DOUBLED MALE SIGN
U+26A4 INTERLOCKED FEMALE AND MALE SIGN
U+26A5 MALE AND FEMALE SIGN
U+26A6 MALE WITH STROKE SIGN
U+26A7 MALE WITH STROKE AND MALE AND FEMALE SIGN
U+26A8 VERTICAL MALE WITH STROKE SIGN
U+26A9 HORIZONTAL MALE WITH STROKE SIGN
U+26B2 NEUTER

Unicode Symbols: Diversity ♀♂⚢⚣⚤⚥⚦⚧⚨⚩⚲
ALT text detailsUnicode Symbols: Diversity ♀♂⚢⚣⚤⚥⚦⚧⚨⚩⚲
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U+2764 U+FE0F U+1FA77 U+1F9E1 U+1F49B U+1F49A U+1F499 U+1FA75 U+1F49C U+1F90E U+1F5A4 U+1FA76 U+1F90D

U+1F49F U+2764 U+FE0F U+200D U+1F525 U+1F494 U+2764 U+FE0F U+200D U+1FA79 U+2763 U+FE0F U+1F498 U+1F493 U+1F497 U+1F496 U+1F49D U+1F495 U+1F49E

U+1F970 U+1F60D U+1F618 U+1F63B U+1F48C U+1FAF6 U+1FAF6 U+1F3FB U+1FAF6 U+1F3FC U+1FAF6 U+1F3FD U+1FAF6 U+1F3FE U+1FAF6 U+1F3FF U+1FAC0

Unicode Emoji: Hearts Galore ❤️🩷🧡💛💚💙🩵💜🤎🖤🩶🤍 💟❤️‍🔥💔❤️‍🩹❣️💘💓💗💖💝💕💞 🥰😍😘😻💌🫶🫶🏻🫶🏼🫶🏽🫶🏾🫶🏿🫀
ALT text detailsUnicode Emoji: Hearts Galore ❤️🩷🧡💛💚💙🩵💜🤎🖤🩶🤍 💟❤️‍🔥💔❤️‍🩹❣️💘💓💗💖💝💕💞 🥰😍😘😻💌🫶🫶🏻🫶🏼🫶🏽🫶🏾🫶🏿🫀
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Michel Mariani

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: &

U+1F4A6 U+1F4A7 U+1F979 U+1F639 U+1F63F

U+1F602 U+1F605 U+1F613 U+1F622 U+1F625 U+1F62A U+1F62D U+1F630 U+1F923 U+1F972 U+1F975

Unicode Emoji: Sweat & Tears 💦💧🥹😹😿 😂😅😓😢😥😪😭😰🤣🥲🥵
ALT text detailsUnicode Emoji: Sweat & Tears 💦💧🥹😹😿 😂😅😓😢😥😪😭😰🤣🥲🥵
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U+1F473 U+1F473 U+1F3FB U+1F473 U+1F3FC U+1F473 U+1F3FD U+1F473 U+1F3FE U+1F473 U+1F3FF

U+1F478 U+1F478 U+1F3FB U+1F478 U+1F3FC U+1F478 U+1F3FD U+1F478 U+1F3FE U+1F478 U+1F3FF

Unicode Emoji: Skin Tones 👳➔👳🏻👳🏼👳🏽👳🏾👳🏿 👸➔👸🏻👸🏼👸🏽👸🏾👸🏿
ALT text detailsUnicode Emoji: Skin Tones 👳➔👳🏻👳🏼👳🏽👳🏾👳🏿 👸➔👸🏻👸🏼👸🏽👸🏾👸🏿
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Michel Mariani

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:

<U+1F605> <U+1F4A7> <U+1F604>

Unicode Emoji: Math Geekiness log(😅) =💧log(😄)
ALT text detailsUnicode Emoji: Math Geekiness log(😅) =💧log(😄)
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U+1F201 U+1F202 U+FE0F U+1F233 U+1F237 U+FE0F U+1F236 U+1F21A U+1F251 U+1F238 U+1F23A U+000A U+1F22F U+1F250 U+1F239 U+1F232 U+1F234 U+3297 U+FE0F U+3299 U+FE0F U+1F235

Unicode Emoji: Japanese Buttons 🈁🈂️🈳🈷️🈶🈚🉑🈸🈺 🈯🉐🈹🈲🈴㊗️㊙️🈵
ALT text detailsUnicode Emoji: Japanese Buttons 🈁🈂️🈳🈷️🈶🈚🉑🈸🈺 🈯🉐🈹🈲🈴㊗️㊙️🈵
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@liilliil@im-in.space

Offering a new : ꙮ

The previously suggested symbol ⁂ is good for depict group and unity, but is poor in terms of associations: “3 snowflakes”.

Polish fediusers have noticed a piece of an old Russian manuscript, it says about ‘many-eyed seraphim’ (серафим многоокий). An unknown 15th-century monk played with the combination of the letters oo, turning them into a multi-eyed creature. The character found in only 1 manuscript, but despite this, it has been added into .

Not only does the symbol beautifully reflect the unity of the fediverse, but it also shows an all-seeing open-minded wise and powerful being (Ezekiel 1:18, 10:12 etc)

also: social.hackerspace.pl/@q3k/110

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Andrew C

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Hey, fedi nerds! :boostRequest:

's Andy Mabbett (@Pigsonthewing) is asking whether anyone knows about any instances of the 's bench mark symbol appearing in actual print, on a page. Looks a bit like ⭱ or ⤒ but a broader arrow. Usually found carved on stone or brick all over the UK/ROI.

Their goal is to propose it as a Unicode symbol! community.openstreetmap.org/t/

Any known international usage of this symbol would doubtless be appreciated too

@openstreetmap

Another non-print example. This is another form of the symbol. I don't know how common. This one's a pre-cast metal (?) plaque with a serial number set into a wall. The arrow lacks the top bar, but above it, along with the O and S of Ordnance Survey, are some very specific-looking slots. Perhaps the slots accepted some sort of surveying equipment. Photo by Gary Rogers on geograph. Links can be found in this thread below.
ALT text detailsAnother non-print example. This is another form of the symbol. I don't know how common. This one's a pre-cast metal (?) plaque with a serial number set into a wall. The arrow lacks the top bar, but above it, along with the O and S of Ordnance Survey, are some very specific-looking slots. Perhaps the slots accepted some sort of surveying equipment. Photo by Gary Rogers on geograph. Links can be found in this thread below.
A non-print example. The most common form of the symbol, although other variants exist. It's carved into a smooth block of stone on the side of a building or monument plinth, and it looks like a capital T with an upside down V overlaid onto it so that the two angled lines from the V come together with the T's vertical stroke to meat its horizontal stroke at a single point. All the bottom lines taper toward that point. Looking at it another way, it's a horizontal line with an arrow pointing at it, saying "here, this level!" They were used for marking height reference points during various surveys of the British isles. Photo by Mike Taylor on geograph.org.uk, CC:by
ALT text detailsA non-print example. The most common form of the symbol, although other variants exist. It's carved into a smooth block of stone on the side of a building or monument plinth, and it looks like a capital T with an upside down V overlaid onto it so that the two angled lines from the V come together with the T's vertical stroke to meat its horizontal stroke at a single point. All the bottom lines taper toward that point. Looking at it another way, it's a horizontal line with an arrow pointing at it, saying "here, this level!" They were used for marking height reference points during various surveys of the British isles. Photo by Mike Taylor on geograph.org.uk, CC:by
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Andrew C

@achadwick@urbanists.social

Hey, fedi nerds! :boostRequest:

's Andy Mabbett (@Pigsonthewing) is asking whether anyone knows about any instances of the 's bench mark symbol appearing in actual print, on a page. Looks a bit like ⭱ or ⤒ but a broader arrow. Usually found carved on stone or brick all over the UK/ROI.

Their goal is to propose it as a Unicode symbol! community.openstreetmap.org/t/

Any known international usage of this symbol would doubtless be appreciated too

@openstreetmap

Another non-print example. This is another form of the symbol. I don't know how common. This one's a pre-cast metal (?) plaque with a serial number set into a wall. The arrow lacks the top bar, but above it, along with the O and S of Ordnance Survey, are some very specific-looking slots. Perhaps the slots accepted some sort of surveying equipment. Photo by Gary Rogers on geograph. Links can be found in this thread below.
ALT text detailsAnother non-print example. This is another form of the symbol. I don't know how common. This one's a pre-cast metal (?) plaque with a serial number set into a wall. The arrow lacks the top bar, but above it, along with the O and S of Ordnance Survey, are some very specific-looking slots. Perhaps the slots accepted some sort of surveying equipment. Photo by Gary Rogers on geograph. Links can be found in this thread below.
A non-print example. The most common form of the symbol, although other variants exist. It's carved into a smooth block of stone on the side of a building or monument plinth, and it looks like a capital T with an upside down V overlaid onto it so that the two angled lines from the V come together with the T's vertical stroke to meat its horizontal stroke at a single point. All the bottom lines taper toward that point. Looking at it another way, it's a horizontal line with an arrow pointing at it, saying "here, this level!" They were used for marking height reference points during various surveys of the British isles. Photo by Mike Taylor on geograph.org.uk, CC:by
ALT text detailsA non-print example. The most common form of the symbol, although other variants exist. It's carved into a smooth block of stone on the side of a building or monument plinth, and it looks like a capital T with an upside down V overlaid onto it so that the two angled lines from the V come together with the T's vertical stroke to meat its horizontal stroke at a single point. All the bottom lines taper toward that point. Looking at it another way, it's a horizontal line with an arrow pointing at it, saying "here, this level!" They were used for marking height reference points during various surveys of the British isles. Photo by Mike Taylor on geograph.org.uk, CC:by
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Today (April Fools' Day), Adobe is apparently back to the list of full members (voting) of the Unicode Consortium, but for how long this time: one full year?

« Ça s’en va et ça revient
C’est fait de tout petits riens
Ça se chante et ça se danse
Et ça revient, ça se retient
Comme une chanson populaire »

Full members (voting) of the Unicode Consortium: Adobe, Airbnb, Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Salesforce, Translated.

home.unicode.org/membership/me

Full members (voting) of the Unicode Consortium: Adobe, Airbnb, Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Salesforce, Translated.
ALT text detailsFull members (voting) of the Unicode Consortium: Adobe, Airbnb, Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Salesforce, Translated.
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SnoopJ

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the most important part of history is when a mouse fell out of a light fixture and got added to the count of members present at a Technical Committee meeting (9 Nov 2016)

unicode.org/L2/L2016/16325.htm

Screenshot of meeting notes for UTC Meeting 149. Text reads: Mouse now present. 6.502 members represented. [149-A94] Action Item for Landlord: Capture and exile the mouse that just fell out of the light fixture.
ALT text detailsScreenshot of meeting notes for UTC Meeting 149. Text reads: Mouse now present. 6.502 members represented. [149-A94] Action Item for Landlord: Capture and exile the mouse that just fell out of the light fixture.
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Terence Eden

@Edent@mastodon.social

Which is your favourite telephone?

OptionVoters
🕾1 (1%)
🕿5 (7%)
☏18 (27%)
☎43 (64%)
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Terence Eden

@Edent@mastodon.social

Which is your favourite telephone?

OptionVoters
🕾1 (1%)
🕿5 (7%)
☏18 (27%)
☎43 (64%)
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洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)

@hongminhee@hollo.social

Hello, I'm an open source software engineer in my late 30s living in , , and an avid advocate of and the .

I'm the creator of @fedify, an server framework in , @hollo, an ActivityPub-enabled microblogging software for single users, and @botkit, a simple ActivityPub bot framework.

I'm also very interested in East Asian languages (so-called ) and . Feel free to talk to me in , (), or (), or even in Literary Chinese (, )!

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@hongminhee@hollo.social

Hello, I'm an open source software engineer in my late 30s living in , , and an avid advocate of and the .

I'm the creator of @fedify, an server framework in , @hollo, an ActivityPub-enabled microblogging software for single users, and @botkit, a simple ActivityPub bot framework.

I'm also very interested in East Asian languages (so-called ) and . Feel free to talk to me in , (), or (), or even in Literary Chinese (, )!

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洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)

@hongminhee@hollo.social

Hello, I'm an open source software engineer in my late 30s living in , , and an avid advocate of and the .

I'm the creator of @fedify, an server framework in , @hollo, an ActivityPub-enabled microblogging software for single users, and @botkit, a simple ActivityPub bot framework.

I'm also very interested in East Asian languages (so-called ) and . Feel free to talk to me in , (), or (), or even in Literary Chinese (, )!

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洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)

@hongminhee@hollo.social

Hello, I'm an open source software engineer in my late 30s living in , , and an avid advocate of and the .

I'm the creator of @fedify, an server framework in , @hollo, an ActivityPub-enabled microblogging software for single users, and @botkit, a simple ActivityPub bot framework.

I'm also very interested in East Asian languages (so-called ) and . Feel free to talk to me in , (), or (), or even in Literary Chinese (, )!

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洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)

@hongminhee@hollo.social

Hello, I'm an open source software engineer in my late 30s living in , , and an avid advocate of and the .

I'm the creator of @fedify, an server framework in , @hollo, an ActivityPub-enabled microblogging software for single users, and @botkit, a simple ActivityPub bot framework.

I'm also very interested in East Asian languages (so-called ) and . Feel free to talk to me in , (), or (), or even in Literary Chinese (, )!

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洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)

@hongminhee@hollo.social

Hello, I'm an open source software engineer in my late 30s living in , , and an avid advocate of and the .

I'm the creator of @fedify, an server framework in , @hollo, an ActivityPub-enabled microblogging software for single users, and @botkit, a simple ActivityPub bot framework.

I'm also very interested in East Asian languages (so-called ) and . Feel free to talk to me in , (), or (), or even in Literary Chinese (, )!

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洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)

@hongminhee@hollo.social

Hello, I'm an open source software engineer in my late 30s living in , , and an avid advocate of and the .

I'm the creator of @fedify, an server framework in , @hollo, an ActivityPub-enabled microblogging software for single users, and @botkit, a simple ActivityPub bot framework.

I'm also very interested in East Asian languages (so-called ) and . Feel free to talk to me in , (), or (), or even in Literary Chinese (, )!

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洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)

@hongminhee@hollo.social

Hello, I'm an open source software engineer in my late 30s living in , , and an avid advocate of and the .

I'm the creator of @fedify, an server framework in , @hollo, an ActivityPub-enabled microblogging software for single users, and @botkit, a simple ActivityPub bot framework.

I'm also very interested in East Asian languages (so-called ) and . Feel free to talk to me in , (), or (), or even in Literary Chinese (, )!

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Found out something interesting/annoying related to ! There is an issue with the character 浅. You might see it one of two ways (see screenshots) depending on which font you use, which was the cause of my confusion. One form has 2 and the other 3 horizontal strokes. So why is that?

The simplified Chinese Hanzi equivalent of 浅
ALT text detailsThe simplified Chinese Hanzi equivalent of 浅
The Japanese kanji 浅
ALT text detailsThe Japanese kanji 浅
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Michel Mariani

@mikaeru@mastodon.social

The Ideographic Research Group (IRG) is responsible for preparing and reviewing sets of CJK unified ideographs to be included in the Unicode Standard.

The IRG homepage is now including comprehensive lists of current and future IRG source prefixes...

🔗 unicode.org/irg/

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It's happening, @marieroald and I are doing our third , this time with a tutorial on Packaging with uv and a talk about in !

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Yngve Mardal Moe 🐍🐢🪡

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It's happening, @marieroald and I are doing our third , this time with a tutorial on Packaging with uv and a talk about in !

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sibaku

@sibaku@mas.to

Found out something interesting/annoying related to ! There is an issue with the character 浅. You might see it one of two ways (see screenshots) depending on which font you use, which was the cause of my confusion. One form has 2 and the other 3 horizontal strokes. So why is that?

The simplified Chinese Hanzi equivalent of 浅
ALT text detailsThe simplified Chinese Hanzi equivalent of 浅
The Japanese kanji 浅
ALT text detailsThe Japanese kanji 浅
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Martin Owens :inkscape:

@doctormo@floss.social

It might have taken an ungodly amount of time. But getting these corner cases right in this PDF export is going to mean the world to a lot of people.

Arabic and Hebrew and non messing up the glyphs.

Sample Text on three PDF pages read: מילים נסתרות كلمات مخفية مرحبا بالعالم "Text on Path" curved on a thick line "تجربة نص على المنحى" curved on a thin line "What is Lorem Ipsum?" ... full text explaining lorum ipsum flowing around a large lack circle ... "Can we do Arabic?" ... A passage in arabic from the Quran flowing around a smaller black circle ...
ALT text detailsSample Text on three PDF pages read: מילים נסתרות كلمات مخفية مرحبا بالعالم "Text on Path" curved on a thick line "تجربة نص على المنحى" curved on a thin line "What is Lorem Ipsum?" ... full text explaining lorum ipsum flowing around a large lack circle ... "Can we do Arabic?" ... A passage in arabic from the Quran flowing around a smaller black circle ...
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Martin Owens :inkscape:

@doctormo@floss.social

It might have taken an ungodly amount of time. But getting these corner cases right in this PDF export is going to mean the world to a lot of people.

Arabic and Hebrew and non messing up the glyphs.

Sample Text on three PDF pages read: מילים נסתרות كلمات مخفية مرحبا بالعالم "Text on Path" curved on a thick line "تجربة نص على المنحى" curved on a thin line "What is Lorem Ipsum?" ... full text explaining lorum ipsum flowing around a large lack circle ... "Can we do Arabic?" ... A passage in arabic from the Quran flowing around a smaller black circle ...
ALT text detailsSample Text on three PDF pages read: מילים נסתרות كلمات مخفية مرحبا بالعالم "Text on Path" curved on a thick line "تجربة نص على المنحى" curved on a thin line "What is Lorem Ipsum?" ... full text explaining lorum ipsum flowing around a large lack circle ... "Can we do Arabic?" ... A passage in arabic from the Quran flowing around a smaller black circle ...
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Jake in the desert

@jake4480@c.im

Some Pac-Man and other alien space invadery type symbols now in Unicode, via this Symbols for Legacy Computing Supplement: unicode.org/charts//PDF/Unicod

A portion from the linked PDF of Unicode symbols showing Pac-Man and Space Invaders type symbols
ALT text detailsA portion from the linked PDF of Unicode symbols showing Pac-Man and Space Invaders type symbols
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Jake in the desert

@jake4480@c.im

Some Pac-Man and other alien space invadery type symbols now in Unicode, via this Symbols for Legacy Computing Supplement: unicode.org/charts//PDF/Unicod

A portion from the linked PDF of Unicode symbols showing Pac-Man and Space Invaders type symbols
ALT text detailsA portion from the linked PDF of Unicode symbols showing Pac-Man and Space Invaders type symbols
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Jake in the desert

@jake4480@c.im

Some Pac-Man and other alien space invadery type symbols now in Unicode, via this Symbols for Legacy Computing Supplement: unicode.org/charts//PDF/Unicod

A portion from the linked PDF of Unicode symbols showing Pac-Man and Space Invaders type symbols
ALT text detailsA portion from the linked PDF of Unicode symbols showing Pac-Man and Space Invaders type symbols
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Dan 🌈

@phrawzty@hachyderm.io

Today I learned that there is a specific "record separator" symbol, formally known as "U+001E Information Separator Two".

codepoints.net/U+001E

It is meant to be used to indicate a separation between two units of information. An example of where this could be used is in a separated-value file, e.g. a CSV, but using this symbol instead of a comma.

This is interesting because there are vanishingly few instances where the record separator symbol would appear in most contexts, but many instances where a comma appears. Using this symbol instead of a comma (or a semi-colon, or an exclamation point, or any one of the usual separators) could make some data hygiene scenarios much more straightforward.

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Dan 🌈

@phrawzty@hachyderm.io

Today I learned that there is a specific "record separator" symbol, formally known as "U+001E Information Separator Two".

codepoints.net/U+001E

It is meant to be used to indicate a separation between two units of information. An example of where this could be used is in a separated-value file, e.g. a CSV, but using this symbol instead of a comma.

This is interesting because there are vanishingly few instances where the record separator symbol would appear in most contexts, but many instances where a comma appears. Using this symbol instead of a comma (or a semi-colon, or an exclamation point, or any one of the usual separators) could make some data hygiene scenarios much more straightforward.

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@hongminhee@hollo.social

Hello, I'm an open source software engineer in my late 30s living in , , and an avid advocate of and the .

I'm the creator of @fedify, an server framework in , @hollo, an ActivityPub-enabled microblogging software for single users, and @botkit, a simple ActivityPub bot framework.

I'm also very interested in East Asian languages (so-called ) and . Feel free to talk to me in , (), or (), or even in Literary Chinese (, )!

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洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)

@hongminhee@hollo.social

Hello, I'm an open source software engineer in my late 30s living in , , and an avid advocate of and the .

I'm the creator of @fedify, an server framework in , @hollo, an ActivityPub-enabled microblogging software for single users, and @botkit, a simple ActivityPub bot framework.

I'm also very interested in East Asian languages (so-called ) and . Feel free to talk to me in , (), or (), or even in Literary Chinese (, )!

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洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)

@hongminhee@hollo.social

Hello, I'm an open source software engineer in my late 30s living in , , and an avid advocate of and the .

I'm the creator of @fedify, an server framework in , @hollo, an ActivityPub-enabled microblogging software for single users, and @botkit, a simple ActivityPub bot framework.

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@hongminhee@hollo.social

Hello, I'm an open source software engineer in my late 30s living in , , and an avid advocate of and the .

I'm the creator of @fedify, an server framework in , @hollo, an ActivityPub-enabled microblogging software for single users, and @botkit, a simple ActivityPub bot framework.

I'm also very interested in East Asian languages (so-called ) and . Feel free to talk to me in , (), or (), or even in Literary Chinese (, )!

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洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)

@hongminhee@hollo.social

Hello, I'm an open source software engineer in my late 30s living in , , and an avid advocate of and the .

I'm the creator of @fedify, an server framework in , @hollo, an ActivityPub-enabled microblogging software for single users, and @botkit, a simple ActivityPub bot framework.

I'm also very interested in East Asian languages (so-called ) and . Feel free to talk to me in , (), or (), or even in Literary Chinese (, )!

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洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)

@hongminhee@hollo.social

Hello, I'm an open source software engineer in my late 30s living in , , and an avid advocate of and the .

I'm the creator of @fedify, an server framework in , @hollo, an ActivityPub-enabled microblogging software for single users, and @botkit, a simple ActivityPub bot framework.

I'm also very interested in East Asian languages (so-called ) and . Feel free to talk to me in , (), or (), or even in Literary Chinese (, )!

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洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)

@hongminhee@hollo.social

Hello, I'm an open source software engineer in my late 30s living in , , and an avid advocate of and the .

I'm the creator of @fedify, an server framework in , @hollo, an ActivityPub-enabled microblogging software for single users, and @botkit, a simple ActivityPub bot framework.

I'm also very interested in East Asian languages (so-called ) and . Feel free to talk to me in , (), or (), or even in Literary Chinese (, )!

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洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)

@hongminhee@hollo.social

Hello, I'm an open source software engineer in my late 30s living in , , and an avid advocate of and the .

I'm the creator of @fedify, an server framework in , @hollo, an ActivityPub-enabled microblogging software for single users, and @botkit, a simple ActivityPub bot framework.

I'm also very interested in East Asian languages (so-called ) and . Feel free to talk to me in , (), or (), or even in Literary Chinese (, )!

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洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)

@hongminhee@hollo.social

Hello, I'm an open source software engineer in my late 30s living in , , and an avid advocate of and the .

I'm the creator of @fedify, an server framework in , @hollo, an ActivityPub-enabled microblogging software for single users, and @botkit, a simple ActivityPub bot framework.

I'm also very interested in East Asian languages (so-called ) and . Feel free to talk to me in , (), or (), or even in Literary Chinese (, )!

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洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)

@hongminhee@hollo.social

Hello, I'm an open source software engineer in my late 30s living in , , and an avid advocate of and the .

I'm the creator of @fedify, an server framework in , @hollo, an ActivityPub-enabled microblogging software for single users, and @botkit, a simple ActivityPub bot framework.

I'm also very interested in East Asian languages (so-called ) and . Feel free to talk to me in , (), or (), or even in Literary Chinese (, )!

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洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)

@hongminhee@hollo.social

Hello, I'm an open source software engineer in my late 30s living in , , and an avid advocate of and the .

I'm the creator of @fedify, an server framework in , @hollo, an ActivityPub-enabled microblogging software for single users, and @botkit, a simple ActivityPub bot framework.

I'm also very interested in East Asian languages (so-called ) and . Feel free to talk to me in , (), or (), or even in Literary Chinese (, )!

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洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)

@hongminhee@hollo.social

Hello, I'm an open source software engineer in my late 30s living in , , and an avid advocate of and the .

I'm the creator of @fedify, an server framework in , @hollo, an ActivityPub-enabled microblogging software for single users, and @botkit, a simple ActivityPub bot framework.

I'm also very interested in East Asian languages (so-called ) and . Feel free to talk to me in , (), or (), or even in Literary Chinese (, )!

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洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)

@hongminhee@hollo.social

Hello, I'm an open source software engineer in my late 30s living in , , and an avid advocate of and the .

I'm the creator of @fedify, an server framework in , @hollo, an ActivityPub-enabled microblogging software for single users, and @botkit, a simple ActivityPub bot framework.

I'm also very interested in East Asian languages (so-called ) and . Feel free to talk to me in , (), or (), or even in Literary Chinese (, )!

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洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)

@hongminhee@hollo.social

Hello, I'm an open source software engineer in my late 30s living in , , and an avid advocate of and the .

I'm the creator of @fedify, an server framework in , @hollo, an ActivityPub-enabled microblogging software for single users, and @botkit, a simple ActivityPub bot framework.

I'm also very interested in East Asian languages (so-called ) and . Feel free to talk to me in , (), or (), or even in Literary Chinese (, )!

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洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)

@hongminhee@hollo.social

Hello, I'm an open source software engineer in my late 30s living in , , and an avid advocate of and the .

I'm the creator of @fedify, an server framework in , @hollo, an ActivityPub-enabled microblogging software for single users, and @botkit, a simple ActivityPub bot framework.

I'm also very interested in East Asian languages (so-called ) and . Feel free to talk to me in , (), or (), or even in Literary Chinese (, )!

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洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)

@hongminhee@hollo.social

Hello, I'm an open source software engineer in my late 30s living in , , and an avid advocate of and the .

I'm the creator of @fedify, an server framework in , @hollo, an ActivityPub-enabled microblogging software for single users, and @botkit, a simple ActivityPub bot framework.

I'm also very interested in East Asian languages (so-called ) and . Feel free to talk to me in , (), or (), or even in Literary Chinese (, )!

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洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)

@hongminhee@hollo.social

Hello, I'm an open source software engineer in my late 30s living in , , and an avid advocate of and the .

I'm the creator of @fedify, an server framework in , @hollo, an ActivityPub-enabled microblogging software for single users, and @botkit, a simple ActivityPub bot framework.

I'm also very interested in East Asian languages (so-called ) and . Feel free to talk to me in , (), or (), or even in Literary Chinese (, )!

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洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)

@hongminhee@hollo.social

Hello, I'm an open source software engineer in my late 30s living in , , and an avid advocate of and the .

I'm the creator of @fedify, an server framework in , @hollo, an ActivityPub-enabled microblogging software for single users, and @botkit, a simple ActivityPub bot framework.

I'm also very interested in East Asian languages (so-called ) and . Feel free to talk to me in , (), or (), or even in Literary Chinese (, )!

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洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)

@hongminhee@hollo.social

Hello, I'm an open source software engineer in my late 30s living in , , and an avid advocate of and the .

I'm the creator of @fedify, an server framework in , @hollo, an ActivityPub-enabled microblogging software for single users, and @botkit, a simple ActivityPub bot framework.

I'm also very interested in East Asian languages (so-called ) and . Feel free to talk to me in , (), or (), or even in Literary Chinese (, )!

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洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)

@hongminhee@hollo.social

Hello, I'm an open source software engineer in my late 30s living in , , and an avid advocate of and the .

I'm the creator of @fedify, an server framework in , @hollo, an ActivityPub-enabled microblogging software for single users, and @botkit, a simple ActivityPub bot framework.

I'm also very interested in East Asian languages (so-called ) and . Feel free to talk to me in , (), or (), or even in Literary Chinese (, )!

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洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)

@hongminhee@hollo.social

Hello, I'm an open source software engineer in my late 30s living in , , and an avid advocate of and the .

I'm the creator of @fedify, an server framework in , @hollo, an ActivityPub-enabled microblogging software for single users, and @botkit, a simple ActivityPub bot framework.

I'm also very interested in East Asian languages (so-called ) and . Feel free to talk to me in , (), or (), or even in Literary Chinese (, )!

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Axel ⌨🐧🐪🚴😷 | R.I.P Natenom

@xtaran@chaos.social

based banning of browsers is sooooo lame.

$ lynx -useragent=🖕 https://[…]

SnoopJ's avatar
SnoopJ

@SnoopJ@hachyderm.io

After a long period of quiet, I have released an update to the `unicode-age` package

pypi.org/project/unicode-age/

The package now supports 16.0

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Matthias Wiesmann

@thias@mastodon.social

Treasure Hunt – Braille Hints

So I prepared a treasure hunt for my older daughter, which involved some form of coded message. I found a braille table I could 3D-print, using a real system instead of some made-up code gave me the opportunity to explain how/why this was used in reality, you find braille codes in lifts, staircase handrails.

wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpre

SnoopJ's avatar
SnoopJ

@SnoopJ@hachyderm.io

TIL that the Consortium is working on guidance for detecting "URLs"¹ in text:

unicode.org/L2/L2024/24217r2-u

¹ scare quotes because URL is formally defined as ASCII-only, but "IRI" is a confusing term and everybody just wants to call the Unicode-aware equivalent a "URL"

Ausir's avatar
Ausir

@ausir@meowr.me

brand new combining diacritics dropping soon in Unicode 17, to be used for transcribing rare historical uses, and even more so for really tryhard conlangs!

Simon Tatham's avatar
Simon Tatham

@simontatham@hachyderm.io

In the old days, you could change a letter between upper and lower case by XORing its character code with 0x20. Of course, if you tried this with anything that wasn't a letter, you'd get nonsense results.

If you try that with code points, it sometimes works, and sometimes doesn't. But Unicode can deliver much more impressive nonsense when it doesn't.

A fun example I just found: the "lower-case" version of CAR is NO PEDESTRIANS.

>>> chr(ord('🚗') ^ 0x20)
'🚷'

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Paul McGuire

@ptmcg@fosstodon.org

Here are some emojidentifiers for your next Python code:

import math
乁_ツ_ㄏ = None
乁_益_ㄏ = math.nan

def minnums(values: list | 乁_ツ_ㄏ = 乁_ツ_ㄏ):
if (
values is 乁_ツ_ㄏ
or not all(isinstance(n, (float, int))
for n in values)
):
return 乁_益_ㄏ
return min(values)

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SnoopJ

@SnoopJ@hachyderm.io

After a long period of quiet, I have released an update to the `unicode-age` package

pypi.org/project/unicode-age/

The package now supports 16.0

SnoopJ's avatar
SnoopJ

@SnoopJ@hachyderm.io

After a long period of quiet, I have released an update to the `unicode-age` package

pypi.org/project/unicode-age/

The package now supports 16.0

Simon Tatham's avatar
Simon Tatham

@simontatham@hachyderm.io

In the old days, you could change a letter between upper and lower case by XORing its character code with 0x20. Of course, if you tried this with anything that wasn't a letter, you'd get nonsense results.

If you try that with code points, it sometimes works, and sometimes doesn't. But Unicode can deliver much more impressive nonsense when it doesn't.

A fun example I just found: the "lower-case" version of CAR is NO PEDESTRIANS.

>>> chr(ord('🚗') ^ 0x20)
'🚷'

Simon Tatham's avatar
Simon Tatham

@simontatham@hachyderm.io

In the old days, you could change a letter between upper and lower case by XORing its character code with 0x20. Of course, if you tried this with anything that wasn't a letter, you'd get nonsense results.

If you try that with code points, it sometimes works, and sometimes doesn't. But Unicode can deliver much more impressive nonsense when it doesn't.

A fun example I just found: the "lower-case" version of CAR is NO PEDESTRIANS.

>>> chr(ord('🚗') ^ 0x20)
'🚷'

Simon Tatham's avatar
Simon Tatham

@simontatham@hachyderm.io

In the old days, you could change a letter between upper and lower case by XORing its character code with 0x20. Of course, if you tried this with anything that wasn't a letter, you'd get nonsense results.

If you try that with code points, it sometimes works, and sometimes doesn't. But Unicode can deliver much more impressive nonsense when it doesn't.

A fun example I just found: the "lower-case" version of CAR is NO PEDESTRIANS.

>>> chr(ord('🚗') ^ 0x20)
'🚷'

Simon Tatham's avatar
Simon Tatham

@simontatham@hachyderm.io

In the old days, you could change a letter between upper and lower case by XORing its character code with 0x20. Of course, if you tried this with anything that wasn't a letter, you'd get nonsense results.

If you try that with code points, it sometimes works, and sometimes doesn't. But Unicode can deliver much more impressive nonsense when it doesn't.

A fun example I just found: the "lower-case" version of CAR is NO PEDESTRIANS.

>>> chr(ord('🚗') ^ 0x20)
'🚷'

Simon Tatham's avatar
Simon Tatham

@simontatham@hachyderm.io

In the old days, you could change a letter between upper and lower case by XORing its character code with 0x20. Of course, if you tried this with anything that wasn't a letter, you'd get nonsense results.

If you try that with code points, it sometimes works, and sometimes doesn't. But Unicode can deliver much more impressive nonsense when it doesn't.

A fun example I just found: the "lower-case" version of CAR is NO PEDESTRIANS.

>>> chr(ord('🚗') ^ 0x20)
'🚷'

Simon Tatham's avatar
Simon Tatham

@simontatham@hachyderm.io

In the old days, you could change a letter between upper and lower case by XORing its character code with 0x20. Of course, if you tried this with anything that wasn't a letter, you'd get nonsense results.

If you try that with code points, it sometimes works, and sometimes doesn't. But Unicode can deliver much more impressive nonsense when it doesn't.

A fun example I just found: the "lower-case" version of CAR is NO PEDESTRIANS.

>>> chr(ord('🚗') ^ 0x20)
'🚷'

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Frank Meerkötter

@fmeerkoetter@mountains.social

Love this book/comic the kids picked up from the library.

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Frank Meerkötter

@fmeerkoetter@mountains.social

Love this book/comic the kids picked up from the library.

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Markus Redeker

@mrdk@mathstodon.xyz · Reply to 0xDE's post

@11011110 At least these symbols have a meaning! But nobody knows what “Angzarr” (⍼) is and why it is in Unicode (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angzarr).

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Markus Redeker

@mrdk@mathstodon.xyz · Reply to 0xDE's post

@11011110 At least these symbols have a meaning! But nobody knows what “Angzarr” (⍼) is and why it is in Unicode (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angzarr).

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Revath S Kumar :javascript:

@revathskumar@fosstodon.org · Reply to Revath S Kumar :javascript:'s post

Wrote a small web utility to visualize the different string normalization forms of a text.

string-normalize.surge.sh/?str

Not the best design 😄 , but feedbacks are welcome.

desktop view of string normalize web page, showing NFC, NFD, NFKC and NFKD normalization forms of text "I ♥ Köln" is visible
ALT text detailsdesktop view of string normalize web page, showing NFC, NFD, NFKC and NFKD normalization forms of text "I ♥ Köln" is visible
mobile view of string normalize web page, showing NFC, NFD and NFKC normalization forms of text "I ♥ Köln" is visible
ALT text detailsmobile view of string normalize web page, showing NFC, NFD and NFKC normalization forms of text "I ♥ Köln" is visible
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Michel Mariani

@mikaeru@mastodon.social

New utility in Unicopedia Sinica:
- Pan-CJK Font Variants
(port from Unicopedia Plus, with Serif/明朝体 font style instead of Sans-Serif/ゴシック体)

🔗 codeberg.org/tonton-pixel/unic

Pan-CJK Font Variants utility screenshot
ALT text detailsPan-CJK Font Variants utility screenshot
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Michel Mariani

@mikaeru@mastodon.social

New utility in Unicopedia Plus:
- Unihan Phonetics

🔗 codeberg.org/tonton-pixel/unic

Unihan Phonetics utility screenshot
ALT text detailsUnihan Phonetics utility screenshot
Revath S Kumar :javascript:'s avatar
Revath S Kumar :javascript:

@revathskumar@fosstodon.org · Reply to Revath S Kumar :javascript:'s post

Wrote a small web utility to visualize the different string normalization forms of a text.

string-normalize.surge.sh/?str

Not the best design 😄 , but feedbacks are welcome.

desktop view of string normalize web page, showing NFC, NFD, NFKC and NFKD normalization forms of text "I ♥ Köln" is visible
ALT text detailsdesktop view of string normalize web page, showing NFC, NFD, NFKC and NFKD normalization forms of text "I ♥ Köln" is visible
mobile view of string normalize web page, showing NFC, NFD and NFKC normalization forms of text "I ♥ Köln" is visible
ALT text detailsmobile view of string normalize web page, showing NFC, NFD and NFKC normalization forms of text "I ♥ Köln" is visible
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SnoopJ

@SnoopJ@hachyderm.io

have you ever "naturally" (i.e. not discussion among experts) encountered a font that correctly renders ꙮ?

OptionVoters
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Revath S Kumar :javascript:

@revathskumar@fosstodon.org

New blog post : "JavaScript : understanding string normalize"

blog.revathskumar.com/2025/01/

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@qiita@rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com

Unicode - 恩恵と厄介事
qiita.com/chai0917/items/16fa5

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@qiita@rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com

[謹賀新年] 世界中に配置した Oracle Active Data Guard から新年のご挨拶
qiita.com/shirok/items/1da55c2

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Paul McGuire

@ptmcg@fosstodon.org · Reply to Axel Rauschmayer's post

@rauschma Ah! I did something similar in Python - this is valid Python code:

def ℎ𝕖𝐥l𝙤():
try:
ℎ𝙚𝕝𝗹𝘰_ = "Hello"
w𝔬𝓇ˡ𝚍﹎ = "World"
𝖕𝘳𝒊𝖓𝑡(f"{𝗵𝒆𝘭𝓵𝚘﹍}, {𝑤º𝘳ｌ𝑑︴}!")
except Ｔ𝗒ₚ𝕖E𝗿𝗋𝗈𝓻 as ᵉ𝒙ⅽ:
𝐩ᵣ𝚒𝖓𝓉("failed: {}".𝕗𝕠r𝑚𝖺𝘵(ⅇ𝔵𝚌))

if _︳ｎ𝗮𝖒𝓮﹍︳ == "__main__":
h𝙚ⅼ𝐥𝕠()

ptmcg.pythonanywhere.com/font_

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Scott Williams 🐧

@vwbusguy@mastodon.online

"This coding interview is just going to be determining the human friendly length of a unicode utf-8 string."

Junior level dev: "Oh, this is going to be easy. How do they not know about len()?"

Senior level dev: "Oh, brilliant - a test of tolerance for pain by evaluating various code point chains with emoji, accents, and LTR/RTL markers. I'll start by writing some tests for 8-bit ord and char conversions with lookahead evals."

Python docs showing how the same one letter can count for one or two character lengths in unicode depending on the code point definition.
ALT text detailsPython docs showing how the same one letter can count for one or two character lengths in unicode depending on the code point definition.
Scott Williams 🐧's avatar
Scott Williams 🐧

@vwbusguy@mastodon.online

"This coding interview is just going to be determining the human friendly length of a unicode utf-8 string."

Junior level dev: "Oh, this is going to be easy. How do they not know about len()?"

Senior level dev: "Oh, brilliant - a test of tolerance for pain by evaluating various code point chains with emoji, accents, and LTR/RTL markers. I'll start by writing some tests for 8-bit ord and char conversions with lookahead evals."

Python docs showing how the same one letter can count for one or two character lengths in unicode depending on the code point definition.
ALT text detailsPython docs showing how the same one letter can count for one or two character lengths in unicode depending on the code point definition.
Scott Williams 🐧's avatar
Scott Williams 🐧

@vwbusguy@mastodon.online

"This coding interview is just going to be determining the human friendly length of a unicode utf-8 string."

Junior level dev: "Oh, this is going to be easy. How do they not know about len()?"

Senior level dev: "Oh, brilliant - a test of tolerance for pain by evaluating various code point chains with emoji, accents, and LTR/RTL markers. I'll start by writing some tests for 8-bit ord and char conversions with lookahead evals."

Python docs showing how the same one letter can count for one or two character lengths in unicode depending on the code point definition.
ALT text detailsPython docs showing how the same one letter can count for one or two character lengths in unicode depending on the code point definition.
SiljeLB's avatar
SiljeLB

@siljelb@snabelen.no

TIL that a proposal was made in 1997 to add to . I'm disappointed it hasn't been made official yet though. Here's a link to the proposal document: unicode.org/wg2/docs/n1641.pdf

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omg! ubuntu

@omgubuntu@floss.social

Ubuntu LTS users will shortly be able to see and use the 8 new emoji included in Unicode 16.0.

omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/12/ubuntu

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Michel Mariani

@mikaeru@mastodon.social

In the open-source application `Unicopedia Sinica`, both data files used for the `CJK Components` and the `CJK Related` utilities are now in a consistent JSON format with MIT license: `cjk-ids.json` and `cjk-related.json` respectively.

🔗 codeberg.org/tonton-pixel/unic

CJK Related utility screenshot
ALT text detailsCJK Related utility screenshot
CJK Components utility screenshot
ALT text detailsCJK Components utility screenshot
CJK Related utility screenshot
ALT text detailsCJK Related utility screenshot
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SnoopJ

@SnoopJ@hachyderm.io

HUH, UAX#31 offers official guidance on hashtag identifiers, and I have somehow managed to miss that completely for several years (introduced along with Unicode 11.0 in 2018).

unicode.org/reports/tr31/#hash

It's not like I re-read the whole document regularly or anything but yea huh

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Aaron “#e14n pro” Madlon-Kay

@amake@mastodon.social · Reply to Aaron “#e14n pro” Madlon-Kay's post

iOS 18.2 did not add any new coverage, at least at the code point level. Nevertheless, I have updated

tofu.quest/?q=%F0%9F%A5%A8

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洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)

@hongminhee@hollo.social

Hello, I'm an open source software engineer in my late 30s living in , , and an avid advocate of and the .

I'm the creator of @fedify, an server framework in , @hollo, an ActivityPub-enabled microblogging software for single users, and @botkit, a simple ActivityPub bot framework.

I'm also very interested in East Asian languages (so-called ) and . Feel free to talk to me in , (), or (), or even in Literary Chinese (, )!

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Eniko | Kitsune Tails out now!

@eniko@peoplemaking.games

Btw here's a little unicode protip: unicode defines several character ranges as private use areas. You can map code points in these ranges to whatever glyph you want. This can be very handy for custom characters in your game that won't conflict with established unicode characters

In our games we use the PUA for keyboard and controller button glyphs

Ausir's avatar
Ausir

@ausir@meowr.me

brand new combining diacritics dropping soon in Unicode 17, to be used for transcribing rare historical uses, and even more so for really tryhard conlangs!

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Michael Zöllner

@emnullfuenf@chaos.social

My study "Unicode Spaces" will be published in Slanted Magazine - Experimental Type 3!

Listing of Unicode white space characters
ALT text detailsListing of Unicode white space characters
Steamboat Willy formed with whitespaces in text.
ALT text detailsSteamboat Willy formed with whitespaces in text.
Flower formed with whitespaces in text.
ALT text detailsFlower formed with whitespaces in text.
SnoopJ's avatar
SnoopJ

@SnoopJ@hachyderm.io

TIL that the Consortium is working on guidance for detecting "URLs"¹ in text:

unicode.org/L2/L2024/24217r2-u

¹ scare quotes because URL is formally defined as ASCII-only, but "IRI" is a confusing term and everybody just wants to call the Unicode-aware equivalent a "URL"

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Marcus Rohrmoser 🌻

@mro@digitalcourage.social · Reply to zirias (on snac)'s post

@zirias @stefano ​s are defined: unicode.org/reports/tr31/#D2

read 'em like this codeberg.org/seppo/seppo/src/c

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Terence Eden

@Edent@mastodon.social

iOS 14 gets support for the Unicode Power Symbol!

shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/09/ios-1

Jim DeLaHunt

@jdlh@mstdn.ca · Reply to Jim DeLaHunt's post

A cool change is that the Core Specification of the Unicode Standard is now released as a static HTML subsite, backed up by an archiveable of 1,140 pages.

unicode.org/versions/Unicode16

You can now link to specific sections and paragraphs, e.g.

"Unicode is about plain text, see: unicode.org/versions/Unicode16" .

I helped out in a small way with the project to produce the core spec as HTML + PDF. I think it is a marvellous improvement.

Jim DeLaHunt

@jdlh@mstdn.ca

Yay! version 16.0 is released!

Announcement: blog.unicode.org/2024/09/annou

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@liilliil@mastodon.online

Народ, айда форсить наш, славянский, кириллический !
«Три снежинки» — ⁂ — потенциальный повод для многочисленных подъёбок

Польские ребята (@brie) нашли лучшего кандидата — ꙮ, «серафим многꙮкий». Символ, найденный в 1928 году только в одной (!) рукописи, и только из-за этого (!) добавленный в несколько веков ждал своего часа
ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Мультиок

(English version im-in.space/@liilliil/11302839 )

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@amyfou@lingo.lol

I am a (non-tenure track, uni) interested in every single thing about , esp ones, & Side gig in ( lol). I love and will ask you too many questions about your etc . Proud fan. Love 👋

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洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)

@hongminhee@fosstodon.org · Reply to 洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)'s post

こんにちは、私はソウルに住んでいる30代後半のオープンソースソフトウェアエンジニアで、自由・オープンソースソフトウェアとフェディバースの熱烈な支持者です。名前は洪 民憙（ホン・ミンヒ）です。

私はTypeScript用のActivityPubサーバーフレームワークである「@fedify」と、1人用フェディバースのマイクロブログである 「@hollo」の作成者でもあります。

私は東アジア言語（いわゆるCJK）とUnicodeにも興味が多いです。日本語、英語、韓国語で話しかけてください。（または、漢文でも！）

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洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)

@hongminhee@fosstodon.org

Hello, I'm an open source software engineer in my late 30s living in , , and an avid advocate of and the .

I'm the creator of @fedify, an server framework in , and @hollo, a fediverse microblog for single users.

I'm also very interested in East Asian languages (so-called ) and . Feel free to talk to me in , (), or (), or even in Literary Chinese (/#漢文)!

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@chunshek@prettyaweso.me

post for my own Mastodon instance!

• I’m a 43-year-old jack-of-all-trades.
• I grew up in , lived in the . My partner of 14 years and I moved to in 2020.
• We are “parents” to one remaining dog.
• I have worked in journalism, finance, L&D, and now EdTech.
• I speak 6 , and have dabbled in many others.
• Things I will nerd out about: , , .
• I am a person of faith, but not a fan of organized religions.
• I type in .

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@hongminhee@fosstodon.org · Reply to 洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)'s post

If you believe that Chinese characters in , , and should all be divided into language-specific codes, then it is logical that the Latin characters in English, French, Italian, and German should all be divided into language-specific codes as well. Caveat: I don't believe so.

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洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)

@hongminhee@fosstodon.org

Well, I vote for Han unification of , and I rather think that more Chinese characters should have been unified (e.g., 高 & 髙, 產 & 産, 內 & 内). 🤷

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@liilliil@im-in.space

Offering a new : ꙮ

The previously suggested symbol ⁂ is good for depict group and unity, but is poor in terms of associations: “3 snowflakes”.

Polish fediusers have noticed a piece of an old Russian manuscript, it says about ‘many-eyed seraphim’ (серафим многоокий). An unknown 15th-century monk played with the combination of the letters oo, turning them into a multi-eyed creature. The character found in only 1 manuscript, but despite this, it has been added into .

Not only does the symbol beautifully reflect the unity of the fediverse, but it also shows an all-seeing open-minded wise and powerful being (Ezekiel 1:18, 10:12 etc)

also: social.hackerspace.pl/@q3k/110

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xChaos

@xChaos@f.cz

Nebaví vás googlit unicode znaky pro subscript a superscript? Mě už taky ne :-)

Akordy pro psaní horního a dolního indexu (ve smyslu Unicode) na klávesnici Windows se dají snadno vygooglit. Pod Linuxem je to ovšem trochu věda:

1) nejdřív Pravý alt + pravý shift + backspace + 2 (ano, čtyřhmat)
2) potom znak, který má být dolní index, třeba číslovka (což ovšem na české klávesnici, na kterou jste přepnutí, taky s shiftem, takže dvouhmat).

H₂O

Pro horní index ve stejném čtyřhmatu akorát nahradíte tu dvojku trojkou:

a² + b² = c²

Slušné akordy, ne? problém je, že pokud čtyřhmat nedomáčknete přesně (?) tak ten Backspace má tendenci fungovat jako backspace, takže umaže jeden znak... no zkrátka, dělám to pokaždé na několikátý pokus, zatím :-)

Vůbec jsem nepochopil návod
abclinuxu.cz/blog/kenyho_stesk
... asi proto, že nevím, která PC klávesa je "compose key", ale v komentářích čtenářů jsem si všiml návodu pro slovenskou klávesnici a funguje mi i pro český layout a tak to předávám dál.

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@SnoopJ@hachyderm.io

the most important part of history is when a mouse fell out of a light fixture and got added to the count of members present at a Technical Committee meeting (9 Nov 2016)

unicode.org/L2/L2016/16325.htm

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Re-: recurring topics here.

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Michel Mariani

@mikaeru@mastodon.social · Reply to Design Brouhaha's post

@MoritzBrouhaha

Je viens tout juste d'acquérir les cinq premiers numéros d’Unicode à Gogo ! Tous disponibles à la boutique du Musée de l'Imprimerie et de la Communication graphique.

Excellent ! 💮

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Michel Mariani

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Unicopedia Ægypta is a developer-oriented set of utilities related to Egyptian hieroglyphs, wrapped into one single app, built with .

Repository: 🔗 codeberg.org/tonton-pixel/unic

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Matthias Wiesmann

@thias@mastodon.social

Treasure Hunt – Braille Hints

So I prepared a treasure hunt for my older daughter, which involved some form of coded message. I found a braille table I could 3D-print, using a real system instead of some made-up code gave me the opportunity to explain how/why this was used in reality, you find braille codes in lifts, staircase handrails.

wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpre

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Unicopedia Plus is a developer-oriented set of Unicode, Unihan, Unikemet & emoji utilities wrapped into one single app, built with .

Repository: 🔗 codeberg.org/tonton-pixel/unic

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Unicopedia Sinica is a developer-oriented set of utilities related to ideographs, wrapped into one single app, built with .

Repository: 🔗 codeberg.org/tonton-pixel/unic

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@idontlikenames@mastodon.gamedev.place

New 2d numeral system just dropped‽‽‽

It's based on ᚛ᚑᚌᚐᚋ᚜ & ☯ & bijective base 6, & works left→right or left←right

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@amake@mastodon.social

Newly covered code points in 17.0:

ᜍ᜕ᜟ

My tooling also indicated that these are covered, but they don't actually show up on my iPhone:

􀑝

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Gerrit Imsieke

@gimsieke@mastodon.cloud

Formatting people’s names correctly in a given context, for a given purpose, is hard. International linguists recently helped update the Common Locale Data Repository (). It will help programmers display person names correctly in many settings.
Mike McKenna wrote about it in “A Story Teller’s Case Study: Unlocking the Power of CLDR Person Name Formatting – A Solution for Formatting Names in a Globalized World” unicode.org/media/CLDR_Person_