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SnoopJ

I am once again talking about how in Swedish the emoji 🐙 and 🦑 may both be referred to as "bläckfisk" (and are in this sense 'the same') and how this is a good example of #Unicode problems someone who speaks only English may not even realize exist

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Florian Pircher

There are 27 #Unicode characters that appear in their own name: the more obvious 26 Latin capital letters A–Z as well as the sneaky “-” HYPHEN-MINUS.

If you’re considering Unicode equivalence, then there is also “K” KELVIN SIGN, which is canonically equivalent to the Latin capital letter K. So, 28 might be an equivalently correct answer.

Another possible contender would be “ ” SPACE if it were named something like WORD SPACE. But it isn’t, meaning 29 is incorrect in any case.

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Alain MICHEL 🤓

#Typographie
« Mais de quel caractère s'agit-il ? »
Par exemple :
⁂ ou ↓ ou ➜ ou −

Pour le savoir :
– copier le ou les caractère(s) à identifier,
– aller sur cette page :
babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/whati
– coller le ou les caractère(s) dans le champ prévu,
– cliquer sur le bouton « Identifier »
– on obtient le nom et le code #Unicode du ou des caractère(s).

Cet outil supporte les plus de 154 000 caractères nommés dans Unicode 16.

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NiceMicro

@notjustbikes Unicode consortium in the 90s and 00s:
well, we can add the letter "A" three times for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic, but will unify the idiographs into single codespaces for Chinese, Japanese and Korean, even in cases when there are important differences between how they are written in each language.

Unicode consortium in the '20s: you get no "no cars" emoji, but here's a face with bags under the eyes.

#unicode#software
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aœ

Problem with special characters - PDF/UA - Screenreader:

I ran into a problem with two glyphs – 🅭 and 🅯 – when creating an accessible PDF. Text set in Source Sans 3.
Tests with InDesign/MadeToTag export and LibreOffice PDF/UA export show the following:
The PDF(s) pass the PDF/UA checks with PAC and pdfToolbox but 🅭 and 🅯 are not read aloud e.g. by Acrobat.

Is this a known issue?

🅭 (1F16D - CIRCLED CC)
🅯 (1F16F - CIRCLED HUMAN FIGURE)

#accessibility#screenreader#PDFUA
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Paolo Amoroso

What sets apart the Cascii web-based ASCII diagram editor from similar tools is it manipulates whole shapes, not just individual characters, and can save them for further modification. Plus it's shokingly easy to self-host and run locally.

github.com/casparwylie/cascii-

GitHubGitHub - casparwylie/cascii-core: A web-based ASCII and Unicode diagram builder written in vanilla JavascriptA web-based ASCII and Unicode diagram builder written in vanilla Javascript - casparwylie/cascii-core
#diagrams#ascii#unicode
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Nicolas Mouart

The word biáng is onomatopoeic, being said to resemble the sound of the thick noodle dough hitting a work surface.[..]

Both the traditional and simplified Chinese characters for biáng were encoded in Unicode, on 20 March 2020, for Unicode 13.0.0. The code point is U+30EDE for the traditional form (𰻞) and U+30EDD for the simplified form (𰻝).
Until that point, there were no standardized ways of entering or representing them on computers

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biangbia

GIF
#chinese#chineseCulture#unicode
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Andrew C

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

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
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.
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Arne Babenhauserheide

Unicode pictograms to mark progressively rising values:
draketo.de/anderes/unicode-ico

For Ace Maths I searched for unicode icons to mark progression: show that you’re getting better. Since I found a lot of different options (from simple sparklines to a huge list of animals), I’m collecting them in this article.

Includes a tip for somewhat better, automatic #unicode "image" suppport #LaTeX with plain #pdflatex / #pdftex

The different lists of pictograms from the site.
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