Mathematical italic capital h mathematical italic small e mathematical italic small l mathematical italic small l mathematical italic small o.
WTF?
Oh, I just said “Hello” to you in italics.
(That’s similar to what someone who uses a screen reader hears when you use fancy non-alphabetical Unicode characters to simulate italics or boldface on your fediverse posts. So please don’t do that.)
OK one more whiny tech question. All I want is a numpad, I can program, plug in to a mac that will type (or possibly simply paste, or send to the clipboard) ANY #unicode character that I want.
This sounds simple, it isn't. I thought #duckypad might be it, but it turns out support for unicode isn't in the works, though I'm learning about this "duck script"
Anyone already have this in their lives? Can you type ℝ or ∀ or √ just by tapping keys? #mechnicalKeyboard
It has come to my attention that folks with a need to enter arbitrary Unicode characters on macOS don't know about the multiple, nifty ways to do it.
BMP characters only: Unicode Hex Input keyboard, enable in Keyboard settings (you can do SMP characters but you have to know the UTF-16 encoding)
(1/3) #Unicode#macOS
Getting around to reading the 'new' "Absolute minimum" blog post about dev knowledge about #Unicode, and I assume parts of it are going to rub me the wrong way
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)
Being from the United Kingdom is hard sometimes. When scrolling through a list of countries, we might be found down the bottom as "UK" or near the top as "Great Britain". Occasionally someone files us under "England" - thus ignoring Wales, Scotland, NI etc. Once in a while, it'll be "The UK". Truly, no one has suffered as we have suffered⸮
Twitter's new 'X' logo looks suspiciously like a generic Unicode symbol
"But the new branding looks suspiciously like a generic Unicode character known as "mathematical double-struck capital X" that was added to the Unicode in March 2001."
my recent interest in #mahjong has collided with my on-going interest in #Unicode as I remember that the block U+1F000 through U+1F02B are allocated for encoding tiles
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this information has no practical use to me, but it's nice that the UCS represents them
Today I am reminded that the difference between lazy "a la" and correct "à la" is called a "grave accent," not the pinyin 4th tone. We are doing french-english, not chinese-latin characters! #unicode In #emacs that's "LATIN SMALL LETTER A GRAVE"
The Court of Appeal of Brussels has made an interesting ruling. A customer complained that their bank was spelling the customer's name incorrectly. The bank didn't have support for diacritical marks. Things like á, è, ô, ü, ç etc. Those accents are common in many languages. So it was a little surprising that the bank didn't suppor
C'est quoi votre outil/site préféré pour récupérer facilement un caractère unicode un peu complexe ? (un point médian, une flèche, un exposant....)
J'avais un site cool mais il est passé hors ligne. Ensuite un workflow alfred mais il est cassé aussi :(
You know how it is, you buy one silly domain name and then you get an idea for loads more! A few weeks ago, I got https://⏻.ga/ - I think I'm the first person to get a domain name which uses a glyph from the Miscellaneous Symbols Unicode block. How exciting! And that got me […]
I just stumbled onto something horrifying, neo-Nazi symbolism seemingly hidden away in #Unicode. The first Unicode #Hebrew codepoint, corresponding to א, is u05D0. The integer corresponding to the hex? 1488. You can't convince me that was a mere coincidence.
The AI generated code absolutely does not care about #unicode at all, so it panics, when you give it a unicode character that happens to not have their char boundary at byte index 1.