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Sniffnoy 2020-02-18 22:50:37+00:00 | [–] update item (on: Detexify: LaTeX handwritten symbol recognition (2009) )

My question is, where's the unicode equivalent of this? :)

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abentspoon | karma 386 | avg karma 7.57 | 2012-02-21 06:15:45+00:00 | [–] similar comments (on: My weekend project: All 1e280 possible tweets on one page )

Thanks! I've added a unicode charset, but it's pretty sparse.

JoshTriplett | karma 44606 | avg karma 4.76 | 2014-06-26 01:02:52 | [–] similar comments (on: Show HN: Unicode glitch art iOS app )

Nice; Unicode is ? awesome!

Anyone know of a good web-based equivalent?

iokevins | karma 590 | avg karma 3.43 | 2016-06-22 13:16:53 | [–] similar comments (on: We did it How a comment on HackerNews lead to 4 ½ new Unicode characters )

"If you want to get more symbols into Unicode, please use our Open Source Guide."

https://github.com/jloughry/Unicode

Note: glad to see they documented their process. : )

lalaithion | karma 2153 | avg karma 4.3 | 2018-03-12 12:44:40 | [–] similar comments (on: Show HN: Ecoji, a new base1024 emoji encoding )

Here's a serious attempt at encoding arbitrary data into Unicode characters:

https://github.com/qntm/base65536

tyingq | karma 59102 | avg karma 3.47 | 2021-06-24 17:54:15+00:00 | [–] similar comments (on: Bash PS1 Generator )

Maybe >(Unicode 0xFF1/＞) would be a good substitute?

Side by side: >>

pjmlp | karma 109153 | avg karma 1.76 | 2020-09-29 13:11:19+00:00 | [–] similar comments (on: Show HN: Elsa – A QuickJS wrapper written in Go )

It doesn't, but does support unicode text, so use just another site and then copy-paste the result here. :)

ehutch79 | karma 2179 | avg karma 2.06 | 2023-04-05 09:01:24 | [–] similar comments (on: Show HN: We are building an open-source IDE powered by AI )

THIS... but with some non-unicode Chinese encoding instead

svat | karma 7818 | avg karma 6.86 | 2018-12-17 20:40:45+00:00 | [–] similar comments (on: Show HN: Fancy fonts you can use almost anywhere )

Note: To see what Unicode characters are in a piece of text, one can paste them into a tool like Uniview: https://r12a.github.io/uniview/ (Developed by one of the W3C i18n people)

DigitalHackOp | karma 53 | avg karma 2.12 | 2024-04-08 21:59:58 | [–] similar comments (on: A cheeky intern nearly turned MS-DOS into NSFW-DOS )

Not unicode, 0x03

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437#Character_set

einpoklum | karma 3425 | avg karma 0.93 | 2023-02-26 14:52:43 | [–] similar comments (on: Unicode 15.0 Slide Show )

This is the most important part of Unicode for me:

https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9/tr9-46.html

because I speak a right-to-left language. Whoever wants to write an application involving text entry, and truly support localization or internationalization, should take the time to read at least section 3:

https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9/tr9-46.html#Basic_Displa...

timmg | karma 1471 | avg karma 4.5 | 2024-03-12 14:15:50 | [–] similar comments (on: Show HN: Comma Separated Values (CSV) to Unicode Separated Values (USV) )

Do those characters map to something visually useful in (typical) unicode fonts?

That would be neat :)

Edit: Apparently, kinda (e.g. https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+241E )

Not the most creative....

DonHopkins | karma 23426 | avg karma 2.38 | 2016-11-22 01:54:04 | [–] similar comments (on: Bye Bye Emojis: Emacs Hates MacOS )

U+1F644 [1]

[1] http://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html#1f644

sschueller | karma 21616 | avg karma 4.57 | 2015-10-23 11:10:54+00:00 | [–] similar comments (on: Mimic – abusing Unicode to create tragedy )

Most modern browser will show you the unicode version.

jjjbokma | karma 149 | avg karma 0.74 | 2021-06-03 11:30:21+00:00 | [–] similar comments (on: Perl Time::Piece Unicode Issue )

Thanks! Wasn't aware of Unicode::UTF8. Updated my blog.

zeynel1 | karma 1007 | avg karma 2.12 | 2010-05-24 13:34:20+00:00 | [–] similar comments (on: The quintessential rational mind: Buddha )

This is great and very useful. Are there plans to add unicode support? http://toadjaw.com/article?url=http://www.tdkterim.gov.tr/bt...

jlgaddis | karma 11467 | avg karma 2.4 | 2020-10-08 17:45:26+00:00 | [–] similar comments (on: Show HN: CLI plain-text notes & bookmarks with Git, sync, encryption, and more )

Unicode [0].

You'll need a terminal that supports Unicode (but most do nowadays, AFAIK) and a font that can display Unicode characters.

Oh, and make sure you're using a locale that supports UTF-8, of course.

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[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode

pacaro | karma 4159 | avg karma 3.14 | 2022-09-14 16:20:50 | [–] similar comments (on: Unicode 15 Released )

https://blog.unicode.org/2022/09/announcing-unicode-standard...

Seems like it might be a better link

jloughry | karma 1444 | avg karma 3.8 | 2013-12-01 21:54:56+00:00 | [–] similar comments (on: Ask HN: Which useful symbols are missing from Unicode? )

I started a project on GitHub to do it: https://github.com/jloughry/Unicode

cakoose | karma 1062 | avg karma 4.6 | 2018-02-05 12:03:57+00:00 | [–] similar comments (on: Best practices for user account, authorization and password management )

In short, there are multiple ways to represent the same character in Unicode: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16173328

@ademarre's RFC link looks like a good place to look for guidance.

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