#Unicode

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

https://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.

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

https://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.

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

I'm the creator of @fedify, an #ActivityPub server framework in #TypeScript, @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 #CJK) and #Unicode. Feel free to talk to me in #English, #Korean (#한국어), or #Japanese (#日本語), or even in Literary Chinese (#文言文, #漢文)!

#introduction

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

I'm the creator of @fedify, an #ActivityPub server framework in #TypeScript, @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 #CJK) and #Unicode. Feel free to talk to me in #English, #Korean (#한국어), or #Japanese (#日本語), or even in Literary Chinese (#文言文, #漢文)!

#introduction

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

I'm the creator of @fedify, an #ActivityPub server framework in #TypeScript, @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 #CJK) and #Unicode. Feel free to talk to me in #English, #Korean (#한국어), or #Japanese (#日本語), or even in Literary Chinese (#文言文, #漢文)!

#introduction

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

I'm the creator of @fedify, an #ActivityPub server framework in #TypeScript, @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 #CJK) and #Unicode. Feel free to talk to me in #English, #Korean (#한국어), or #Japanese (#日本語), or even in Literary Chinese (#文言文, #漢文)!

#introduction

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

I'm the creator of @fedify, an #ActivityPub server framework in #TypeScript, @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 #CJK) and #Unicode. Feel free to talk to me in #English, #Korean (#한국어), or #Japanese (#日本語), or even in Literary Chinese (#文言文, #漢文)!

#introduction

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

I'm the creator of @fedify, an #ActivityPub server framework in #TypeScript, @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 #CJK) and #Unicode. Feel free to talk to me in #English, #Korean (#한국어), or #Japanese (#日本語), or even in Literary Chinese (#文言文, #漢文)!

#introduction

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

I'm the creator of @fedify, an #ActivityPub server framework in #TypeScript, @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 #CJK) and #Unicode. Feel free to talk to me in #English, #Korean (#한국어), or #Japanese (#日本語), or even in Literary Chinese (#文言文, #漢文)!

#introduction

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

I'm the creator of @fedify, an #ActivityPub server framework in #TypeScript, @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 #CJK) and #Unicode. Feel free to talk to me in #English, #Korean (#한국어), or #Japanese (#日本語), or even in Literary Chinese (#文言文, #漢文)!

#introduction

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

I'm the creator of @fedify, an #ActivityPub server framework in #TypeScript, @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 #CJK) and #Unicode. Feel free to talk to me in #English, #Korean (#한국어), or #Japanese (#日本語), or even in Literary Chinese (#文言文, #漢文)!

#introduction

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

I'm the creator of @fedify, an #ActivityPub server framework in #TypeScript, @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 #CJK) and #Unicode. Feel free to talk to me in #English, #Korean (#한국어), or #Japanese (#日本語), or even in Literary Chinese (#文言文, #漢文)!

#introduction

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

I'm the creator of @fedify, an #ActivityPub server framework in #TypeScript, @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 #CJK) and #Unicode. Feel free to talk to me in #English, #Korean (#한국어), or #Japanese (#日本語), or even in Literary Chinese (#文言文, #漢文)!

#introduction

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

I'm the creator of @fedify, an #ActivityPub server framework in #TypeScript, @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 #CJK) and #Unicode. Feel free to talk to me in #English, #Korean (#한국어), or #Japanese (#日本語), or even in Literary Chinese (#文言文, #漢文)!

#introduction

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

I'm the creator of @fedify, an #ActivityPub server framework in #TypeScript, @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 #CJK) and #Unicode. Feel free to talk to me in #English, #Korean (#한국어), or #Japanese (#日本語), or even in Literary Chinese (#文言文, #漢文)!

#introduction

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

I'm the creator of @fedify, an #ActivityPub server framework in #TypeScript, @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 #CJK) and #Unicode. Feel free to talk to me in #English, #Korean (#한국어), or #Japanese (#日本語), or even in Literary Chinese (#文言文, #漢文)!

#introduction

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

I'm the creator of @fedify, an #ActivityPub server framework in #TypeScript, @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 #CJK) and #Unicode. Feel free to talk to me in #English, #Korean (#한국어), or #Japanese (#日本語), or even in Literary Chinese (#文言文, #漢文)!

#introduction

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

I'm the creator of @fedify, an #ActivityPub server framework in #TypeScript, @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 #CJK) and #Unicode. Feel free to talk to me in #English, #Korean (#한국어), or #Japanese (#日本語), or even in Literary Chinese (#文言文, #漢文)!

#introduction

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

I'm the creator of @fedify, an #ActivityPub server framework in #TypeScript, @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 #CJK) and #Unicode. Feel free to talk to me in #English, #Korean (#한국어), or #Japanese (#日本語), or even in Literary Chinese (#文言文, #漢文)!

#introduction

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

I'm the creator of @fedify, an #ActivityPub server framework in #TypeScript, @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 #CJK) and #Unicode. Feel free to talk to me in #English, #Korean (#한국어), or #Japanese (#日本語), or even in Literary Chinese (#文言文, #漢文)!

#introduction

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

I'm the creator of @fedify, an #ActivityPub server framework in #TypeScript, @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 #CJK) and #Unicode. Feel free to talk to me in #English, #Korean (#한국어), or #Japanese (#日本語), or even in Literary Chinese (#文言文, #漢文)!

#introduction

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

I'm the creator of @fedify, an #ActivityPub server framework in #TypeScript, @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 #CJK) and #Unicode. Feel free to talk to me in #English, #Korean (#한국어), or #Japanese (#日本語), or even in Literary Chinese (#文言文, #漢文)!

#introduction

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

I'm the creator of @fedify, an #ActivityPub server framework in #TypeScript, @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 #CJK) and #Unicode. Feel free to talk to me in #English, #Korean (#한국어), or #Japanese (#日本語), or even in Literary Chinese (#文言文, #漢文)!

#introduction

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

I'm the creator of @fedify, an #ActivityPub server framework in #TypeScript, @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 #CJK) and #Unicode. Feel free to talk to me in #English, #Korean (#한국어), or #Japanese (#日本語), or even in Literary Chinese (#文言文, #漢文)!

#introduction

#UserAgent based banning of #textmode browsers is sooooo lame.

$ lynx -useragent=🖕 https://[…]

#Lynx #TUI #Browser #TextModeBrowser #Unicode #UTF8 #Emoji

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

https://pypi.org/project/unicode-age/

The package now supports #Unicode 16.0

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.

#3dprinting #braille #unicode #python

https://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/archives/37764

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

https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2024/24217r2-uts58-working-draft.html

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"

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!

#linguistics #unicode #conlang

In the old #ASCII 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 #Unicode 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)
'🚷'

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)

#python #unicode #emoji

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

https://pypi.org/project/unicode-age/

The package now supports #Unicode 16.0

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

https://pypi.org/project/unicode-age/

The package now supports #Unicode 16.0

In the old #ASCII 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 #Unicode 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)
'🚷'

In the old #ASCII 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 #Unicode 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)
'🚷'

In the old #ASCII 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 #Unicode 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)
'🚷'

In the old #ASCII 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 #Unicode 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)
'🚷'

In the old #ASCII 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 #Unicode 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)
'🚷'

In the old #ASCII 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 #Unicode 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)
'🚷'

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

#comics #graphicnovel #unicode

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

#comics #graphicnovel #unicode

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

#Unicode #Angzarr #Mathematics

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

#Unicode #Angzarr #Mathematics

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

https://string-normalize.surge.sh/?str=I+%e2%99%a5+K%c3%b6ln

Not the best design 😄 , but feedbacks are welcome.

#javascript #TypeScript #string #unicode

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)

🔗 https://codeberg.org/tonton-pixel/unicopedia-sinica

#unicopedia #unicode #unihan #cjkfont #variants

New utility in Unicopedia Plus:
- Unihan Phonetics

🔗 https://codeberg.org/tonton-pixel/unicopedia-plus

#unicopedia #unicode #unihan #phonetics

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

https://string-normalize.surge.sh/?str=I+%e2%99%a5+K%c3%b6ln

Not the best design 😄 , but feedbacks are welcome.

#javascript #TypeScript #string #unicode

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

New blog post : "JavaScript : understanding string normalize"

https://blog.revathskumar.com/2025/01/javascript-understanding-string-normalize.html

#javascript #string #unicode

Unicode - 恩恵と厄介事
https://qiita.com/chai0917/items/16fa57fc3078c5314d8d?utm_campaign=popular_items&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=popular_items

#qiita #Windows #C #Unicode

[謹賀新年] 世界中に配置した Oracle Active Data Guard から新年のご挨拶
https://qiita.com/shirok/items/1da55c23b33c5228049a?utm_campaign=popular_items&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=popular_items

#qiita #oracle #Unicode #oci #dataguard #OracleDatabase

@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()

https://ptmcg.pythonanywhere.com/font_mixer

#python #unicode

"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."

#unicode #programming

"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."

#unicode #programming

"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."

#unicode #programming

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

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

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/12/ubuntu-update-support-for-emoji-16-0

#ubuntu #unicode #opensource

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.

🔗 https://codeberg.org/tonton-pixel/unicopedia-sinica

#unicopedia #cjk #unihan #unicode #json

HUH, #Unicode 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).

https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr31/#hashtag_identifiers

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

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

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

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

I'm the creator of @fedify, an #ActivityPub server framework in #TypeScript, @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 #CJK) and #Unicode. Feel free to talk to me in #English, #Korean (#한국어), or #Japanese (#日本語), or even in Literary Chinese (#文言文, #漢文)!

#introduction

Btw here's a little #gamedev 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

#unicode

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!

#linguistics #unicode #conlang

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

#typography #unicode #whitespace

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

https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2024/24217r2-uts58-working-draft.html

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"

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

read 'em like this https://codeberg.org/seppo/seppo/src/commit/87bf300/lib/tag.ml#L31

iOS 14 gets support for the Unicode Power Symbol!

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/09/ios-14-gets-support-for-the-power-symbol/

#emoji #ios #power #unicode

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 #PDF of 1,140 pages.

https://unicode.org/versions/Unicode16.0.0/core-spec/

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

"Unicode is about plain text, see: https://unicode.org/versions/Unicode16.0.0/core-spec/chapter-2/#G642" .

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.

#18n #fonts #PDF #unicode

Yay! #Unicode version 16.0 is released!

Announcement: https://blog.unicode.org/2024/09/announcing-unicode-standard-version-160.html

#18n #fonts #PDF #unicode

Народ, айда форсить наш, славянский, кириллический #fediverseSymbol!
«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 #Unicode несколько веков ждал своего часа
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Мультиокулярная_О

(English version https://im-in.space/@liilliil/113028392518272881 )

I am a #linguist (non-tenure track, uni) interested in every single thing about #languages, esp #Indigenous ones, #academics & #teaching Side gig in #ComunityBased #LanguageTech (#webdev #React #postgres #hasura #graphQL #nodeJS #nginx #linux #podman #kubernetes #docker #unicode lol). I love #animals and will ask you too many questions about your #dogs #cats #horses #sheep #goats #chickens #bunnies #piggies #cows etc . Proud #UglyDogs fan. Love #nature #birds #photography #art 👋

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！）

#自己紹介 #CJK #Unicode #日本語 #英語 #韓国語

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

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

I'm also very interested in East Asian languages (so-called #CJK) and #Unicode. Feel free to talk to me in #English, #Korean (#한국어), or #Japanese (#日本語), or even in Literary Chinese (#文言文/#漢文)!

#introduction

#Introduction post for my own Mastodon instance!

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

If you believe that Chinese characters in #Chinese, #Korean, and #Japanese 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.

#Unicode

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

#漢字 #hanzi #hanja #kanji

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
https://www.abclinuxu.cz/blog/kenyho_stesky/2020/8/psani-hornich-a-dolnich-indexu-pres-compose-key
... 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.

#tipy #x11 #linux #czech #unicode

the most important part of #Unicode 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)

https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16325.htm#149-A94

Re-#introduction: recurring topics here.

#Wikimedia #Wikidata #Wikipedia #MediaWiki #OpenStreetMap #Wikimania #Wikisource #WikiCite #OpenRefine #wiki #Wiktionary #WikiLovesMonuments #Wikibase #Wikiquote

#i18n #L10n #translatewiki.net #Unicode #CLDR #languages

#Copyright #PublicDomain #PubblicoDominio #Copyleft #CreativeCommons #OpenData #UploadFilters #LicenzaLibera #DatiAperti

#InternetArchive #books #biblioteche #library #Koha #KohaILS #GLAM

#WikiTeam #digipres #ArchiveTeam #XSLT

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@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 ! 💮

#Unicode

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

Repository: 🔗 https://codeberg.org/tonton-pixel/unicopedia-aegypta

#characters #codecharts #codepoints #desktopapplication #egyptian #electronjs #glyphs #hieroglyph #hieroglyphs #javascript #localfonts #unicode #unicopedia #unikemet

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.

#3dprinting #braille #unicode #python

https://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/archives/37764

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

Repository: 🔗 https://codeberg.org/tonton-pixel/unicopedia-plus

#characters #chinese #cjk #codepoints #desktopapplication #electronjs #emoji #ivd #japanese #javascript #kangxi #kangxiradicals #korean #normalization #opensource #regex #segmentation #strokecount #unicode #unicopedia #unihan #unikemet

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

Repository: 🔗 https://codeberg.org/tonton-pixel/unicopedia-sinica

#characters #chinese #cjk #cjkrelated #cjkv #codecharts #codepoints #components #confusables #desktopapplication #electronjs #glyphs #ideographs #ideographicdescriptionsequences #ids #japanese #javascript #kangxi #kangxiradicals #korean #localfonts #opensource #strokes #tangut #unicode #unicopedia #unihan #vietnamese

New 2d numeral system just dropped‽‽‽

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

#math #unicode #linguistics #pixelart #ui #blackandwhite #design #inspiration #language

Newly covered #Unicode code points in #iOS 17.0:

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

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Formatting people’s names correctly in a given context, for a given purpose, is hard. International linguists recently helped update the #Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (#CLDR). 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” https://www.unicode.org/media/CLDR_Person_Name_White_Paper_June%202023.pdf